Gigha, Green (Dance)

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 BWBWGGGG.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 8 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7603

Provenance

Earliest known date: March 2008 One of a series of dancer's tartans for the House of Edgar's in-house collection designed by Kirsty Anderson.

3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • March 2008 — Gigha, Green (Dance) (tartans-authority, record)
    One of a series of dancer's tartans for the House of Edgar's in-house collection designed by Kirsty Anderson.
  • March 2008 — Gigha Green Fashion Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
  • undated — Gigha Green (register-of-tartans, record)
    One of a series of dancer's tartans for the House of Edgar's in-house collection designed by Kirsty Anderson.
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
March 2008 (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

DB/8 W4 DB2 W36 DG36 G36 Y6 G/8

One full sett is 256 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
DG#053819 #053819oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)

Sample pattern

DB/8 W4 DB2 W36 DG36 G36 Y6 G/8 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

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