Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity
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 BGBGBGBRWR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=63
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2005 The Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity is a Professional Chemistry Fraternity, founded in 1902, which promotes the advancement of chemistry both as a science and as a profession. The Fraternity is a not-for-profit corporation of the United States of America.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2005 — Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity (register-of-tartans, record)
The Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity is a professional Chemistry Fraternity founded in 1902. It promotes the advancement of chemistry both as a science and as a profession. The Fraternity is a not-for-profit corporation of the United States of America. Colours: dark blue & yellow are the Fraternity colours; the three yellow lines are for the three objectives of the Fraternity; red is for the Fraternity flower - the red carnation; red/white represents the founding of the Fraternity and are the school colours of University of Wise-Madison; the two white lines represent 1902, the year of the foundation of the Fraternity. - 2005 — Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity (Corp) (tartans-authority, record)
The Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity is a Professional Chemistry Fraternity, founded in 1902, which promotes the advancement of chemistry both as a science and as a profession. The Fraternity is a not-for-profit corporation of the United States of America. Dark blue & yellow represent the Fraternity colours. The three yellow lines are for the three objects of the Fraternity. Red is the Fraternity flower - red carnation. Red/white represents the founding of the Fraternity - school colours of University of Wise-Madison. The two white lines are the year of the founding (1902). - 2005 — Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Register of Tartans
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
- data date
- 2005 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - 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: 63
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6688
Thread count
DB/70 Y2 DB6 Y2 DB6 Y2 DB40 R12 W2 R/10
One full sett is 224 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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/s10/db35y1db3y1db3y1db20r6w1r5~x2/