University of Trinity College
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 KRWBY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 5 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10211
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 10/05/2010 — University of Trinity College (register-of-tartans, record)
Trinity College in the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was founded in 1852 by Bishop John Strachan, who was born in Aberdeen in 1778, moved to Upper Canada in 1799, and founded the University of King's College (later the University of Toronto) in 1827. The colours chosen for the tartan reflect the official colours of Trinity College, as well as those of St Hilda's College, our sister foundation, with which we affiliated by Charter in 1890. - pre 2010 — Trinity College, Toronto Uni. (Corp (tartans-authority, record)
Trinity College in the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was founded in 1852 by Bishop John Strachan, who was born in Aberdeen in 1778, moved to Upper Canada in 1799, and founded the University of King's College (later the University of Toronto) in 1827. The colours chosen for the tartan reflect the official colours of Trinity College, as well as those of St Hilda's College, our sister foundation, with which we affiliated by Charter in 1890.
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
- 10/05/2010 (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: 10211
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10211
Thread count
K/16 R32 LB16 DB80 LY/16
One full sett is 288 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
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/s5/k1r2lb1db5ly1~x16/