Citadel Military Academy
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 GKWBYBYBYBYBWKR.
Part of the Citadel Military Academy tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=652
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1979 — Citadel Military Academy (register-of-tartans, record)
A variation of the Earl of St. Andrew's plus yellow and red stripes. woven by D.C. Dalgliesh in 1980 for this very old South Carolina Military Academy. Tartan said to have been 'arranged' by Otis C. Johnston, Jr. The designer was possibly the head of the Citadel Piping School at that time - one Ludovic Grant-Alexander (info Bob Martin November 2003). Swatch in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. Full name as detailed on woven swatch 'Citadel Military Institute of South Carolina'. The Academy commonly known as "The Citadel" is at Charleston, South Carolina, founded 1843. The Pipe Band was established in 1955 by General Mark W. Clark then President of the Academy at that time. The tartan was not agreed until 1979 under the guidence of Col. William F. Prioleau Jr. The design is that of the Earl of St Andrews with an alternate gold and red over check to suggest bravery and excellence - 1980 — Citadel Military Academy (Military) (tartans-authority, record)
A variation of the Earl of St. Andrew's plus yellow and red stripes. woven by D.C. Dalgliesh in 1980 for this very old South Carolina Military Academy. Tartan said to have been 'arranged' by Otis C. Johnston, Jr. The designer was possibly the head of the Citadel Piping School at that time - one Ludovic Grant-Alexander. (info Bob Martin Nov. 2003). Swatch in STA's Johnston Collection. Full name as detailed on woven swatch 'Citadel Military Institute of South Carolina'.
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
- 1979 (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: 652
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1572
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1572
Thread count
R/6 K4 LB36 DB20 LR6 DB4 LR4 DB10 LR4 DB4 LR6 DB20 LB36 K4 Y/6
One full sett is 328 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s15/r3k2lb18db10lr3db2lr2db5lr2db2lr3db10lb18k2y3~x2/