New World Celts (Corporate)
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 KWWKGGRKRKWKW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7636
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 2008 — New World Celts (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
This count estimated from a photograph. Black background is the melting pot of the new world, the sett starts and ends with the colors of the flags of the Old Seven Celtic nations, with the center red, white and blue representing the New Celtic Nations of the USA, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. The Tartan was unveiled at the 2008 Dunedin Highland Games in Dunedin, Florida. " Designed by Michael S Dunlap, son of the President of the NWC. - undated — New World Celts (register-of-tartans, record)
Threadcount estimated from a photograph. Designed by Michael S Dunlap and unveiled at the 2008 Dunedin Highland Games in Dunedin, Florida. Black background is the melting pot of the new world, the sett starts and ends with the colours of the flags of the Old Seven Celtic nations, with the centre red, white and blue representing the New Celtic Nations of the USA, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 2008 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5651
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7636
Thread count
K/150 LB4 W4 K4 Y4 DG8 R6 K4 R8 K2 W8 K4 LB/10
One full sett is 272 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s13/k75lb2w2k2y2dg4r3k2r4k1w4k2lb5~x2/