St. Columba (one green)
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 BGBGYWGB.
Part of the St Columba tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3887
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1996 Commercial version with only one shade of green. Designed by Peter MacDonald for St.Columba's Church, Groline on Mull to commemorate the 1400th aniversary of St. Columba's death. Tartan Society entry states "Based on all the natural colours of Iona, this tartan was designed to raise money to restore a church roof."
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/10/1996 — St. Columba (one green) (register-of-tartans, record)
Commercial version with only one shade of green. Designed by Peter MacDonald for St.Columba's Church, Groline on Mull to commemorate the 1400th aniversary of St. Columba's death. Tartan Society entry states 'Based on all the natural colours of Iona, this tartan was designed to raise money to restore a church roof. - 1996 — St. Columba (one green) (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Commercial version with only one shade of green. Designed by Peter MacDonald for St.Columba's Church, Groline on Mull to commemorate the 1400th aniversary of St. Columba's death. Tartan Society entry states "Based on all the natural colours of Iona, this tartan was designed to raise money to restore a church roof." - 1996 — St Columba District Tartan (house-of-tartan, 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
- 01/10/1996 (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: 3887
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2383
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2383
Thread count
DB/40 Y2 W2 LY6 G28 N8 Y2 DP/8
One full sett is 144 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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/s8/db20y1w1ly3g14n4y1dp4~x2/