St. Andrews
Bands: BWBWBBGBGBGBGYGBGBGBGBBWBW · Stripes: DB W DB W DB B G B G B G B G LY G B G B G B G B DB W DB W DB W DB W DB B G B G B G B G LY G B G B G B G B DB W DB W
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 26 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3874
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/08/2003 — St. Andrews (register-of-tartans, record)
- undated — St Andrews District Tartan Tartan Number: 5899. Earliest known date: August 2003 Designed by Robin Elliot of Elliots of Selkirk for a company called St Andrews Ltd of 19 Rutland Square, Edinburgh. Sample in STA Collection. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3874
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5899
Thread count
DBa/96 LN6 DBa8 LN6 DBa6 B32 G4 B10 G6 B8 G8 B6 G10 Y4 G10 B6 G8 B8 G6 B10 G4 B32 DBa6 LN6 DBa8 LN/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #1870A4 #1870A4 | B #2A418A | 0.13 |
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | B #2A418A | 0.08 |
| DBa | #1C0070 #1C0070 | B #2A418A | 0.14 |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | G #006100 | 0.15 |
| DN | #14283C #14283C | B #2A418A | 0.15 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Scottish Islamic (Corporate) — ΔT 1.49
- Couper of Gogar — ΔT 1.55
- Couper of Gogar (Clan) — ΔT 1.58
- Ranking (Personal) — ΔT 1.61
- Peter Pan — ΔT 1.66
- Help for Heroes (Corporate) — ΔT 1.68
- Strathclyde, University of — ΔT 1.69
- Alberta, Quebec, Nova Scotia. — ΔT 1.70
- Bell-McTier Thistle (Personal) — ΔT 1.72
- Spirit of Morningside — ΔT 1.73
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
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