Cowal Highland Games Corporate Tartan
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 BBBGBGBGGGBGBGBB.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 16 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2536
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1994 The Cowal Highland Gathering takes place on the last weekend of August each year in Dunoon, Argyllshire, on the Firth of Clyde and is the largest, most spectacular Highland Games in the world with thousands of dancers, pipers, drummers and athletes attending from all over the world. In 1994, the centenary year of the Gathering, this soft muted tartan in blues and greens was designed. Only available from Bells of Dunoon - michael.boyce@telco4u.net (Sept. 2004)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1994 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
DB/36 DT32 G4 DT4 G4 DT4 G32 DG8 G32 DT4 G4 DT4 G4 DT32 DB36 N/4
One full sett is 448 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s16/db9dt8g1dt1g1dt1g8dg2g8dt1g1dt1g1dt8db9n1~x4/