St. Margaret's School Edinburgh
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 KGGKRKRKGKWGWGGKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 17 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3900
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — St. Margaret's School Edinburgh (register-of-tartans, record)
An unusual asymmetric tartan from Geoffrey (Tailor) for the Edinburgh independent girls' school of St Margaret's. The tartan owes its design to the Buchanan - the school was founded in 1890 by James and Annie Buchanan. - pre 2004 — St. Margaret's (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. An unusual asymmetric tartan from Geoffrey (Tailor) for the Edinburgh independent girls' school of St Margaret's. The tartan owes its design to the Buchanan - the school was founded in 1890 by James and Annie Buchanan.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Register of Tartans
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
- data date
- 2002 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - 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: 3900
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6232
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2942
Thread count
K/32 DG6 G16 K6 O24 K6 O24 K6 G16 K6 LB24 G16 LB24 G16 DG6 K32 W/6
One full sett is 494 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #408060 #408060 | oklch(54.8% 0.084 160.1) |
| DG | #006818 #006818 | oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 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/s17/k16dg3g8k3o12k3o12k3g8k3lb12g8lb12g8dg3k16w3x2dg1806142-g2203152/