Lions Club
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 BGWKBYBWYBKGBWGWBGBKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 21 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2122
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/05/1962 — Lions Club (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Miss M Patricia Jenkins, founder of The Loomcrofters of Gagetown, New Brunswick for the Lions Clubs International, a community service organisation dedicated to the idea that the men and women who live in a community are in the best position to know who needs help and why. Local Clubs are part of the world's largest such organisation, with more than 1.35 million members within 45,000 clubs, serving in 200 countries and geographical areas. The association is both non-political and non-sectarian. The Scottish Tartans Society cloth archive specimen is said to differ slightly in the precise numbers of threads. Purple & Gold are the Lions' colours and azure and white are those of the United Nations organisation, indicating the worldwide character of the organisation. The Black and white are said to signify the world's needs and the Lions' efforts to answer them. The design 'portrays the Lions working throughout the world to bring light out of darkness whether that darkness be blindness, war, poverty, ignorance or some other world problem.' - May 1962 — Lions Club (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
CIDD thread count used (36epi) supplied in John Fitzpatrick's July 2008 review of Canadian tartans. Designed by Miss M Patricia Jenkins, founder of The Loomcrofters of Gagetown (Est. 1941), New Brunswick for the Lions Clubs International, a community service organisation dedicated to the idea that the men and women who live in a community are in the best position to know who needs help and why. Local Clubs are part of the world's largest such organisation, with more than 1.35 million members within 45,000 clubs, serving in 200 countries and geographical areas. The association is both non-political and non-sectarian. The Scottish Tartans Society cloth archive specimen is said to differ slightly in the precise numbers of threads. Purple & Gold are the Lions' colours and azure and white are those of the United Nations organisation, indicating the worldwide character of the organisation. The Black and white are said to signify the world's needs and the Lions' efforts to answer them. The design 'portrays the Lions working throughout the world to bring light out of darkness whether that darkness be blindness, war, poverty, ignorance or some other world problem."
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
- 01/05/1962 (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: 2122
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 93
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 93
Thread count
DP/60 Y2 W2 K2 DP2 LY2 DP8 W8 LY12 DP10 K2 Y5 DP5 W2 Y2 W2 DP5 Y5 DP5 K5 W/12
One full sett is 244 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| Y | #789484 #789484 | oklch(64.0% 0.040 160.0) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LY | #E8C000 #E8C000 | oklch(81.9% 0.168 93.7) |
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/s21/dp60y2w2k2dp2ly2dp8w8ly12dp10k2y5dp5w2y2w2dp5y5dp5k5w12~y2602166-ly3307090/