Catalan (92 Olympics)
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 WYGYBYBYBYBYBY.
Part of the Catalan tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=593
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1992 — Catalan (92 Olympics) (register-of-tartans, record)
The 10th century Comte de Barcelona, Guifre I el Pilos, with his dying breath brushed his four bloodstained fingers down his shield leaving four vertical stripes creating the heraldic device of Catalunya. Later the stripes were turned sideways for the Bandera. (flag). The tartan also incorporates white for the snow, green for the flora and blue for the Mediterranean Sea. It was first seen at the Barcelona Olympic Games, 1992. - 1992 — Catalan (92 Olympics) (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric tartan "El tartan catalan".The tartan of Catalunya designed for the 1992 Olympics. Colours are the Catalan flag plus narrow stripes for snow, land and sea. Registered with the STS in 1992. Now regarded as a District Tartan. Lochcarron swatch. Viv Sharpe notes read "Created to celebrate the 1992 Olympic Games and the preservation of the good things in life in preference to the conflict and antagonism of the modern world. This tartan has its own crested brooch i.e. the St. george and Dragon of catalunya."
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
- 1992 (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: 593
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2071
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2071
Thread count
LY/44 DR6 LY6 DR6 LY6 DR6 LY6 DR6 LY44 T3 LY3 G3 LY3 LB/3
One full sett is 243 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
ID: /variants/s14/ly44dr6ly6dr6ly6dr6ly6dr6ly44t3ly3g3ly3lb3/