YMCA
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 RWBBKBKWBWKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10999
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/12/2013 — YMCA (register-of-tartans, record)
This 21st century tartan is a variation of the ancient Breacan nan Cleirach, the tartan of the Clergy - which was possibly worn in the Scottish Highlands by men of the church as early as the 1750s. The YMCA tartan incorporates the colours of the world organisation and at its core is the 1844 founding date of the YMCA represented with 18 threads of black and white and 44 threads of blue. Combined with that 1844 beginning, the blue of the oceans links over 45 million members around the globe and celebrates the values, strengths and aspirations of the world's largest 'clan' - the YMCA. - October 2013 — YMCA (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
This 21st century tartan is a variation of the ancient "Breacan nan Cleirach" - the tartan of the Clergy - which was worn in the Scottish Highlands by men of the church as early as the 1750s. The YMCA tartan incorporates the colours of the world organisation and at its core is the 1844 founding date of the YMCA represented with 18 threads of black and white and 44 threads of blue. Combined with that 1844 beginning, the blue of the oceans links over 45 million members around the globe and celebrates the values, strengths and aspirations of the world's largest clan - the YMCA.
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
- 01/12/2013 (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: 10999
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10999
Thread count
R/8 W2 DR72 DB8 K2 DB6 K20 W2 DB8 W2 K16 W/2
One full sett is 286 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| 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) |
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/s12/r4w1dr36db4k1db3k10w1db4w1k8w1~x2/