European Congress of Immunology 2012
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 BGBRKBWBKRKGB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10683
Provenance
Earliest known date: Created to commemorate the 3rd European Congress of Immunology, held in Glasgow in September 2012. The inspiration for this tartan comes from the City of Glasgow tartan, first woven in 1790 by Wilsons of Bannockburn. This modern interpretation incorporates the Congress colours of purple and lime green, and also features the white on blue of the Scottish Saltire. The width of the blue band is 12 threads to mark the year 2012. The colours of the tartan also embrace those of the EFIS (European Federation of Immunological Societies) and the BSI (British Society for Immunology).
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 08/08/2012 — European Congress of Immunology 2012 (register-of-tartans, record)
Created to commemorate the 3rd European Congress of Immunology, held in Glasgow in September 2012. The inspiration for this tartan comes from the City of Glasgow tartan, first woven in 1790 by Wilsons of Bannockburn. This modern interpretation incorporates the Congress colours of purple and lime green, and also features the white on blue of the Scottish Saltire. The width of the blue band is 12 threads to mark the year 2012. The colours of the tartan also embrace those of the EFIS (European Federation of Immunological Societies) and the BSI (British Society for Immunology). - undated — European Congress of Immunology 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
- 08/08/2012 (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: 10683
Thread count
DP/13 Y2 K18 R22 K28 DB6 W2 DB6 K28 R22 DB18 Y2 DP/13
One full sett is 334 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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/s13/dp13y2k18r22k28db6w2db6k28r22db18y2dp13/