Tulsa, City of
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 GBGRKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4155
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1978 — Tulsa, City of (register-of-tartans, record)
This is the count from District tartans book. Scottish Tartans Society notes: The tartan was designed by Richard Crawford, Chinnubbie McIntosh, and Bea Notley, and supported by the Mayor of Tulsa, Robert J. La Fortune who issued a proclamation to 'endorse and ordain the establishment of the Tulsa tartan'. Tulsa is situated on the Arkansas River in Oklahoma, a State much settled by Scots. Tulsa Pipe Band site states: 'Tulsa is the only city outside the British Commonwealth to own its own district tartan, officially registered with Lord Lyon, King of Arms.' (Brian Wilton from the Scottish Tartans Society, note: there is no record of this appearing in Lord Lyon books). 'The colours were chosen to represent the distinctive features and influences of Tulsa and Green Country. The red is for the Native Americans, the blue represents the area lakes, the green is for green country, and the black represents petroleum.' Confusion was caused in 1985 when an erroneous weave appeared from Amana Mills in Iowa who had taken the count as being the full sett rather than the pivot (Alistair Buchan, Lochcarron). - 1978 — Tulsa, City of (District) (tartans-authority, record)
This is the count from District tartans book. STS notes: The tartan was designed by Richard Crawford, Chinnubbie McIntosh, and Bea Notley, and supported by the Mayor of Tulsa, Robert J. La Fortune who issued a proclamation to 'endorse and ordain the establishment of the Tulsa tartan'. Tulsa is situated on the Arkansas River in Oklahoma, a State much settled by Scots. Tulsa Pipe Band site states: "Tulsa is the only city outside the British Commonwealth to own its own district tartan, officially registered with Lord Lyon, King of Arms."(BW note: there is no record of this appearing in Lord Lyon books). "The colors were chosen to represent the distinctive features and influences of Tulsa and Green Country. The red is for the Native Americans, the blue represents the area lakes, the green is for green country, and the black represents petroleum." Confusion was caused in 1985 when an erroneous weave appeared from Amana Mills in Iowa who had taken the count as being the full sett rather than the pivot (Alistair Buchan, Lochcarron).
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
- 1978 (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: 4155
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 712
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 712
Thread count
DG/28 DB16 DG28 R28 K6 R/28
One full sett is 212 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s6/dg14db8dg14r14k3r14~x2/