New South Wales Waratah

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 BGGGGBBBBG.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3120

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/01/2002 — New South Wales Waratah (register-of-tartans, record)
    Designed by Scottish Lair of Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia, and woven by Strathmore Woollen Company, Forfar, exclusively for them. Waratah is a flower and is the emblem for New South Wales.
  • pre 2002 — New South Wales Waratah (District) (tartans-authority, record)
    Designed by Scottish Flair of Queanbeyan, Australia and woven by Strathmore exclusively for them. Waratah is a flower and is the emblem for New South Wales.
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
2002 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

G/24 DB4 DR4 DB4 DT52 DG4 G6 DG6 G48 DR/8

One full sett is 288 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
DG#053819 #053819oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)
DT#023535 #023535oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8)
DR#55120C #55120Coklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)

Sample pattern

G/24 DB4 DR4 DB4 DT52 DG4 G6 DG6 G48 DR/8 tartan

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

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