Sarna (District)
This is one variant — a specific cloth: this exact thread count and colourway, with its own provenance below. It is one weaving of the sett (the scale-free proportion — the same cloth at any scale or shade), whose colour order is pattern GYGBGBGGRGGBR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2558
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 2002 — Sarna (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. Sample given to Scottish Tartans Society by Swedish/Scot Gudrun Joyce of Comrie, Perthshire. Count has different warp and weft and includes odd numbers. STS entry categorises this as a 'State' tartan but follows it by an entry for the Sarna (town) district tartan. - Historic — Sarna (State) (register-of-tartans, record)
Sample given to Scottish Tartans Society by Swedish/Scot Gudrun Joyce of Comrie, Perthshire. Count has different warp and weft and includes odd numbers. Scottish Tartans Society entry categorises this as a 'State' tartan but follows it by an entry for the Sarna (town) district tartan.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- pre 2002 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - thetartan/tartan-database 2016-2017 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Levko Kravets's frozen compilation — the capture we vendored, and where its CC licence text came from - this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3654
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2558
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2558
Thread count
G/8 LY2 DY4 DP4 G3 DP4 DY42 G4 R3 G4 DY4 DP5 R/3
One full sett is 169 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #604000 #604000 | oklch(39.8% 0.083 76.8) |
| LY | #E8C000 #E8C000 | oklch(81.9% 0.168 93.7) |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartan variants
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 13621 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /variants/s13/g8ly2dy4dp4g3dp4dy42g4r3g4dy4dp5r3~ly3307090-dy1603076/