Strathclyde, University of Corporate Tartan
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 BKRKBKWKGKGGKW.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2419
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1971 University of Strathclyde, Scotland
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1971 — Strathclyde, University of Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 1997 — Strathclyde, University of (Corporat (tartans-authority, record)
The basic design centres on the Anderson Tartan, in honour of the University's founder, Professor John Anderson. Red and green are from the City of Glasgow's tartan. The colours of the University crest are red, blue and gold. The history of this institution goes back to 1796. - 01/09/1998 — Strathclyde, University of (register-of-tartans, record)
The basic design centres on the Anderson Tartan, in honour of the University's founder, Professor John Anderson. Red and green are from the City of Glasgow's tartan. The colours of the University crest are red, blue and gold. The history of this institution goes back to 1796.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1971 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 3982
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2419
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2419
Thread count
DB/14 K2 R6 K2 DB48 K2 W6 K6 G6 K6 G6 DG38 K4 W/8
One full sett is 286 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #006818 #006818 | oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0) |
| G | #5C6428 #5C6428 | oklch(48.3% 0.084 116.0) |
| 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) |
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/s14/db7k1r3k1db24k1w3k3g3k3g3dg19k2w4x2g1903114-dg1806142/