Eastern Kentucky University
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 KRKWBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=11069
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/04/2014 — Eastern Kentucky University (register-of-tartans, record)
Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) traces its heritage to 1874 with the founding of Central University. In spring 2013, the Apparel Design and Merchandising program gave students the opportunity to design the official EKU Tartan. The winning design by Hensley Rector features the corporate colours, cream and crimson. The crimson represents courage and strength. - 2014 — Eastern Kentucky University (tartans-authority, record)
Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) traces its heritage to 1874 with the founding of Central University. In 1906, the Kentucky General Assembly established the Eastern Kentucky State Normal School and Teachers College. Central's colours were cream and crimson and it was decided that Eastern's colours should remain the same. In spring 2013, the Apparel Design and Merchandising program gave students the opportunity to design the official EKU Tartan, and one design was selected as the Official EKU Tartan. The crimson dominates in Hensley Rector's winning design, and is symbolic of courage, bravery and strength.
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
- 01/04/2014 (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: 11069
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 11069
Thread count
R/30 N18 W8 K24 R30 K/10
One full sett is 200 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/s6/r15n9w4k12r15k5~x2/