Avalon - Stewart House

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 WKGWGRKRKRKRKW.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=146

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/09/2004 — Avalon - Stewart House (register-of-tartans, record)
    The 'master' tartan for Avalon School in Maryland (6300 Tilden Lane, Rockville MD 20852). Each school house has its own tartan - Calvert House, carroll House, Stewart House, Washington House. In Jan 2005 James Bostick was a staff member of Avalon independent boys school, founded in 2002. All the tartans were woven by Fraser & Kirkbright of Victoria, British Columbia.
  • 2004 Sept — Avalon - Stewart House (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
    Avalon School (6300 Tilden Lane, Rockville MD 20852) has its own corporate tartan plus four house tartans - the other three can be seen at 6362, 6363 & 6364. The designer James Bostick is (Jan 2005) a staff member of this school which was founded in 2002 - an independent boys' school. All tartans woven by Fraser & Kirkbright of Victoria, British Columbia.
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
01/09/2004 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

W/6 K2 R30 K12 R10 K6 R16 K4 R10 Y6 W4 Y8 K2 W/6

One full sett is 232 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
T#00879F #00879Foklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1)
G#408060 #408060oklch(54.8% 0.084 160.1)
DG#006818 #006818oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
N#636363 #636363oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

W/6 K2 R30 K12 R10 K6 R16 K4 R10 Y6 W4 Y8 K2 W/6 tartan

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

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