London Caledonian Games Association
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 RBRGRBRGRGRBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2195
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1933 — London Caledonian Games Association (register-of-tartans, record)
This is a puzzling entry since this is virtually the same as Wilsons' London Caledonian and yet is said to have been designed in 1933 by John Hannay, Vice President of London Caledonian Games Association, who also designed the Galloway tartans. - 1933 — London Caledonian Games Assoc.(Corp) (tartans-authority, record)
This is a puzzling entry since this is virtually the same as Wilsons' London Caledonian and yet is said to have been designed in 1933 by John Hannay, Vice President of London Caledonian Games Association who also designed the Galloway tartans.
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
- 1933 (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: 2195
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1388
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1388
Thread count
R/18 DP4 R42 Y4 R4 DP16 R4 G4 R4 G34 R4 DP4 R/16
One full sett is 282 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/r9dp2r21y2r2dp8r2g2r2g17r2dp2r8~x2/