How many tartans are there?

[figheadair]

Peter, can you tell us how many are registered with the STA today?

My Dress Blue design which was registered on 09/06/12 is ITI #10,689. So I assumed that there were at least that many in the STA database two years ago.

I'll need to check tomorrow but it's not quite that straight forward as blocks of numbers have been forward allocated. I think the STR were given 10,000 onwards to give clear blue water so to speak whereas I have 100 numbers in the upper 8000s allocated for my research. Add to that the fact that some of the records are duplicates and we're slowing going through cleansing data and you'll see that the answer is a little more compleicated. More anon.

[figheadair]

I'll need to check tomorrow but it's not quite that straight forward as blocks of numbers have been forward allocated. I think the STR were given 10,000 onwards to give clear blue water so to speak whereas I have 100 numbers in the upper 8000s allocated for my research. Add to that the fact that some of the records are duplicates and we're slowing going through cleansing data and you'll see that the answer is a little more compleicated. More anon.

Give or take the odd 100, and allowing for errors and duplications, the STA Db has about 7,800 tartans on record.