Hororata
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 RKBKGGBGGKW.
Part of the Hororata tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10536
Provenance
Earliest known date: 9 January 2012 This tartan was created to celebrate the inaugural Hororata Highland Games in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake which devastated Christchurch and destroyed many important buildings in the small town of Hororata. Based on the Mackenzie Clan tartan after the colourful 19th century New Zealand folk hero, James Mackenzie. Hororata is Maori for 'drooping rata', the Rata tree that produces masses of bright red flowers, leading it to be known as the South Island Christmas tree. Colours: red for the Rata flowers; black and white to complete the colours of the Maori flag; white also represents the snow capped mountains, green represents the fertile Canterbury plains and blue the major rivers flowing into the Pacific; black and yellow are the town colours of Hororata. The design and the first 30 metres of cloth were donated by the Scottish Tartans Authority and Andrew Elliot, weavers of Selkirk. The official registration in the Scottish Register of Tartans was donated by the National Records of Scotland.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 10/06/2011 — Hororata (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan was created to celebrate the inaugural Hororata Highland Games in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake which devastated Christchurch and destroyed many important buildings in the small town of Hororata. Based on the Mackenzie Clan tartan after the colourful 19th century New Zealand folk hero, James Mackenzie. Hororata is Maori for 'drooping rata', the Rata tree that produces masses of bright red flowers, leading it to be known as the South Island Christmas tree. Colours: red for the Rata flowers; black and white to complete the colours of the Maori flag; whits also represents the snow capped mountains, green represents the fertile Canterbury plains and blue the major rivers flowing into the Pacific; black and yellow are the town colours of Hororata. The design and the first 30 metres of cloth were donated by the Scottish Tartans Authority and Andrew Elliot, weavers of Selkirk. The official registration in the Scottish Register of Tartans was donated by the National Records of Scotland. - 9 January 2012 — Hororata District 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
- 10/06/2011 (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: 10536
Thread count
R/4 K2 DB60 K12 G24 Y2 DB4 Y2 G24 K6 W/2
One full sett is 278 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s11/r2k1db30k6g12y1db2y1g12k3w1~x2/