Alabama, University of
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 RKBWBKRKRKWKRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10402
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 19/10/2010 — Alabama, University of (register-of-tartans, record)
Also called "We Are Crimson", this was the winning tartan in a design contest for an official University of Alabama tartan sponsored by the College of Human Environmental Sciences at the University of Alabama. “I wanted my tartan to be easily recognized as the University’s plaid,” Rich said of her design. “So, naturally I wanted the predominant colours to be crimson and white, with accents of black and grey. Secondly, I wanted it to represent the entire University, so I used 13 lines to represent the 13 colleges that comprise The University of Alabama today. “Then, in the center of the design, the innermost white square represents Denny Chimes, and the whole central plaid represents the Quad because the Quad is the heart of the campus. The four corners of the centre plaid speak to our past and represent the four original buildings that survived the fire set by the Union troops during the Civil War.” - October 2010 — University of Alabama (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
This tartan design, called "We Are Crimson," has been chosen as the winning design by University of Alabama fans and a judging panel. Linnzi Rich of Stevenson, Alabama, a junior majoring in clothing, textile and interior design, designed the tartan. "I wanted my tartan to be easily recognized as the University?s plaid," Rich said of her design. "So, naturally I wanted the predominant colors to be crimson and white, with accents of black and gray. Secondly, I wanted it to represent the entire University, so I used 13 lines to represent the 13 colleges that comprise The University of Alabama today. "Then, in the center of the design, the innermost white square represents Denny Chimes, and the whole central plaid represents the Quad because the Quad is the heart of the campus. The four corners of the center plaid speak to our past and represent the four original buildings that survived the fire set by the Union troops during the Civil War." Offiial colors of the University of Alabama are Crimson (RGB 153, 0, 0) and Warm Grey (RGB 238, 238, 238). For this record the official RGB codes provided by the U of A were used. The grey in the on-line graphic created by Ms. Rich appears to contain more brown than recorded here. Matthew Newsome was on the judging panel for the tartan and served as consultant to the Univeristy of Alabama.
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
- 19/10/2010 (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: 10402
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10402
Thread count
R/64 K4 N6 W8 N6 K4 R44 K2 R10 K4 W12 K4 R8 W/10
One full sett is 298 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
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/r32k2n3w4n3k2r22k1r5k2w6k2r4w5~x2/