Buckeye
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 BKWR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 4 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10702
Provenance
Earliest known date: 20 September 2012 The official tartan for The Ohio State University. The Ohio State Buckeyes is a collegiate football team that competes as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, representing the Ohio State University in the Leaders Division of the Big Ten Conference. The tartan is a lattice work of the Ohio State football uniform strip pattern featuring the Ohio State University’s official school colours since 1878, scarlet and grey.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 12/09/2012 — Buckeye (register-of-tartans, record)
The official tartan for The Ohio State University. The Ohio State Buckeyes is a collegiate football team that competes as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, representing the Ohio State University in the Leaders Division of the Big Ten Conference. The tartan is a lattice work of the Ohio State football uniform strip pattern featuring the Ohio State University’s official school colours since 1878, scarlet and grey. - 12/09/2012 — Buckeye (tartans-authority, record)
The official tartan for The Ohio State University. The Ohio State Buckeyes is a collegiate football team that competes as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, representing the Ohio State University in the Leaders Division of the Big Ten Conference. The tartan is a lattice work of the Ohio State football uniform strip pattern featuring the Ohio State University?s official school colours since 1878, scarlet and grey. This tartan may only be woven or produced with the written consent of Trademark and Licensing Services at The Ohio State University. - 20 September 2012 — Buckeye Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 12/09/2012 (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: 10702
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10702
Thread count
N/100 K16 W32 R/64
One full sett is 260 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 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/s4/n25k4w8r16~x4/