YMCA Corporate Tartan
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 KWKKKKWKWKW.
Part of the YMCA tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=10999
Provenance
Earliest known date: October 2013 This 21st century tartan is a variation of the ancient "Breacan nan Cleirach" - the tartan of the Clergy - which was worn in the Scottish Highlands by men of the church as early as the 1750s. The YMCA tartan incorporates the colours of the world organisation and at its core is the 1844 founding date of the YMCA represented with 18 threads of black and white and 44 threads of blue. Combined with that 1844 beginning, the blue of the oceans links over 45 million members around the globe and celebrates the values, strengths and aspirations of the world's largest clan - the YMCA.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- October 2013 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
K/8 W2 K80 K2 K6 K20 W2 K8 W2 K16 W/2
One full sett is 286 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
Sample pattern
ID: /variants/s8/k4w1k54w1k4w1k8w1~x2/