Inverness Cathedral (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 KWBWKBGBR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7642
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 2006 — Inverness Cathedral (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
A regular worshipper at St. Andrews Cathedral Inverness, Jamie Scarlett MBE designed this tartan for the Cathedral in 2006. It featured on the cover of the order of service for his funeral on 23rd May 2008 at which the Director of the Scottish Tartans Authority, Brian Wilton, read the address. Jamie was interred at the Insh Cemetry at Kingussie close to his wife Meta who predeceased him in 2000. - undated — Inverness Cathedral (register-of-tartans, record)
A regular worshipper at St. Andrews Cathedral Inverness, Jamie Scarlett MBE designed this tartan for the Cathedral in 2006. It featured on the cover of the order of service for his funeral on 23rd May 2008 at which the Director of the Scottish Tartans Authority, Brian Wilton, read the address. Jamie was interred at the Insh Cemetry at Kingussie close to his wife Meta who predeceased him in 2000.
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
- 2006 (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: 5656
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7642
Thread count
R/144 DB12 Y2 DB24 K8 W2 N8 W2 K/10
One full sett is 270 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 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/s9/r72db6y1db12k4w1n4w1k5~x2/