St. David's Welsh District 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 GRGRGW.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=5746
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2002 Representing the colours of Wales, this national tartan is recognised in Wales as The Brithwe Dewi Sant, or The Saint Davids Tartan, exclusively woven in Wales by The Cambrian Woollen Mill, in Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys. Launched at Cardiff Castle in honour of the Welsh Patron Saint, and worn by Welsh folk around the world for special occasions including St Davids Day, March 1st. A differing warp and weft create a vertical stripe in these Welsh Tartans.
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
- 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
- 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
DG/60 R2 DG8 R1 DG5 W/2
One full sett is 94 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #003820 #003820 | oklch(30.0% 0.070 158.3) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| DG | #285800 #285800 | oklch(41.0% 0.122 135.8) |
| DG | #006818 #006818 | oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0) |
| G | #289C18 #289C18 | oklch(60.6% 0.191 141.6) |
| W | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | oklch(90.7% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | oklch(99.1% 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/s6/dg60r2dg8r1dg5w2~w4000000/