Mina Perhonen
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 GKWBGKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2960
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2003 — Mina Perhonen (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Fiona Hall of Lochcarron as a corporate tartan for the Mina Company of Tokyo whose logo is a butterfly. The blues are from the company's colours and represent the sky, the yellow represents the butterfly and the white is for the clouds. 'Perhonen' is Finnish for butterfly and chosen because the Japanese design world has a great affinity with some Scandinavian countries. - pre 2003 — Mina Perhonen (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Fiona Hall of Lochcarron as a corporate tartan for the Mina Company of Tokyo whose logo is a butterfly. The blues are from the compa y's colours and represent the sky, the yellow represents the butterfly and the white is for the clouds.'Perhonen' is Finnish for butterfly and chosen because the Japanese design world has a great affinity with some Scandinavian countries.
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
- 2003 (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: 2960
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5797
Thread count
Y/8 K8 LB10 T48 Y4 K48 W/8
One full sett is 252 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s7/y4k4lb5t24y2k24w4~x2/