St. Piran Cornish Flag
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 KWKWKWKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3903
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1983 An alternative source gives this sett as having been produced by Thomas Gordon of Glasgow around 1973. There is (c.1982) a pipe band in New York that wears this tartan.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1983 — St. Piran Cornish Flag (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan was originally called the St Piran (patron saint of Cornwall) and was to be woven by Abi Armstrong Evans and marketed in conjunction with Donald Rawe of Padstow. There was a very complicated 'High Court' parting of the ways however and Donald Rawe abandonded his claims to the rights of this tartan (which had been registered by Abi Armstrong Evans) and went on to design the St Piran Dress tartan (#1685, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference). To avoid confusion, Abi Evans then changed the name of this 'St Piran' to the 'Cornish Flag'. Still available from Abi Evans of Trevecca. This update at 21st Sept 2005. Free for anyone to weave (Abi Evans May 2006). The white cross on the black represents the flag of Cornwall and the symbol of St Piran, patron saint of the Cornish tin miners. The red represents the scarlet leg and beak of the Cornish chough, the national bird. - 1983 — St Piran Cornish Flag District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 1984 — Cornish Flag (District) (tartans-authority, record)
This tartan was originally called the St Piran (patron saint of Cornwall) and was to be woven by Abi Armstrong Evans and marketed in conjunction with Donald Rawe of Padstow. There was a very complicated 'High Court' parting of the ways however and Donald Rawe abandonded his claims to the rights of this tartan (which had been registered by Abi Armstrong Evans) and went on to design the St Piran Dress tartan (#1685). To avoid confusion, Abi Evans then changed the name of this 'St Piran' to the 'Cornish Flag'. The white cross on the black represents the flag of Cornwall and the symbol of St Piran, patron saint of the Cornish tin miners. The red represents the scarlet leg and beak of the Cornish chough, the national bird. - undated — St Piran, Cornish Flag (weddslist, record)
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
- 1983 (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: 3903
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1618
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1618
Thread count
R/4 K2 W20 K40 W10 K40 W20 K/2
One full sett is 270 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s5/w5k20w10k1r2~x2/