St. Columba (two greens) (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 BGBGGYWGB.
Part of the St Columba tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3219
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1997 — St. Columba (two greens) (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Peter MacDonald for St.Columba's Church on Mull to commemorate the 1400th aniversary of St. Columba's death. This is the original version which had seven colours including two shades of green. #2383 is a simplified version for production. Tartan Society described this tartan as "Based on all the natural colours of Iona, this tartan was designed to raise money to restore a church roof." - undated — St. Columba (two greens) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Peter MacDonald for St.Columba's Church on Mull to commemorate the 1400th anniversary of St. Columba's death. This is the original version which had seven colours including two shades of green. #2383 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) is a simplified version for production. Scottish Tartans Society described this tartan as 'Based on all the natural colours of Iona, this tartan was designed to raise money to restore a church roof.' See www.celticoriginals.com.
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
- 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
- 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: 4849
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3219
Thread count
DB/40 Y2 W2 LY6 G8 DG20 N8 Y2 DP/8
One full sett is 144 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #006818 #006818 | oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0) |
| G | #5C6428 #5C6428 | oklch(48.3% 0.084 116.0) |
| 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
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.61 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/s9/db20y1w1ly3g4dg10n4y1dp4x2g1903114-dg1806142/