Cornish Christophers (Personal)
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 GYGKGRKW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4044
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 2000 — Cornish Christophers (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
This tartan is for Paul Christophers and his family originally of Helston, Cornwall The resemblance to the Cornish National tartan (#1262 ) and the St. Piran tartan ( #1618) reflects the Christopher family's long connections with the area. Lochcarron swatch. - 01/03/2001 — Cornish Christophers (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan is for Paul Christophers and his family originally of Helston, Cornwall. The resemblance to the Cornish National tartan (#1262, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) and the St. Piran tartan (#1618, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) reflects the Christopher family's long connections with the area. Lochcarron swatch.
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
- 2000 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 763
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4044
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2809
Thread count
G/10 LG10 Y52 K8 Y12 R10 K30 W/8
One full sett is 262 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LG | #82D67A #82D67A | oklch(80.1% 0.150 142.2) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s8/g5lg5y26k4y6r5k15w4~x2/