St. Andrews Links (Corporate)

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 BGBGYGB.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 7 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2391

Provenance

Earliest known date: May 1997 Designed by Polly Wittering of the House of Edgar 1997. Corporate tartan for use on merchandise. Green lightened here to show the sett.

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • May 1997 — St. Andrews Links (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
    Designed by Polly Wittering of the House of Edgar 1997. Corporate tartan for use on merchandise. Green lightened here to show the sett.
  • May 1997 — St Andrews Links Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
May 1997 (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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

DT/32 G8 DT6 G6 LO4 G48 DR/4

One full sett is 180 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DT#023535 #023535oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8)
DR#55120C #55120Coklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3)
LO#FF9C34 #FF9C34oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)

Sample pattern

DT/32 G8 DT6 G6 LO4 G48 DR/4 tartan

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.

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