Pennsylvania (District)
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 BGBGBGKBGBKBGBKGBGB.
Part of the Pennsylvania tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 19 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3130
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- June 1992 — Pennsylvania (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Now the official state tartan as decreed in House Resolutin No. 548 dated Jaunary 26th, 2012. Designed by the late Wm.H. Johnston 1992 and subsequently registered with the Scottish Tartans Authority. Based on the Black Watch which served at the Battle of Bushy Run, near Pittsburgh, in 1763, thus assuring western Pennsylvania and the "Ohio Country" for Great Britain. - undated — Pennsylvania (register-of-tartans, record)
Not yet accepted by the State as official (March 2007). Designed and copyrighted by the late Wm.H. Johnston 1992. Registered with the Tartan Educational and Cultural Association on 10 March 1993. Based on the Black Watch which served at the Battle of Bushy Run, near Pittsburgh, in 1763, thus assuring western Pennsylvania and the 'Ohio Country' for Great Britain. 'Tartans' (Johnston/Smith 1999) states (Page 109) that this is the State Tartan. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. Johnston's book has a serious error in that the threadcount for the second pivot is given as R/4 whereas in reality it is B/4. The Sheepskin Shop in Ebensburg PA that markets blankets in the tartan has obviously used that threadcount from the book.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- June 1992 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5259
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3130
Thread count
T/60 Y4 T4 Y4 T10 G10 K30 T10 G40 DR4 K6 DR4 G40 T10 K30 G10 T40 Y4 T/4
One full sett is 584 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) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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/s19/t30y2t2y2t5g5k15t5g20dr2k3dr2g20t5k15g5t20y2t2~x2/