Lees-McRae 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 GBGKYKGBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2084
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1999 — Lees-McRae College (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Marjorie Warren, North Carolina for the Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, North Carolina. Lees-McRae College is at the base of Grandfather Mountain, the site of the largest Highland Games on the east coast of the USA. The college is a Presbyterian school of about 400 and holds summer schools in piping, dancing etc. Officially Recorded 17/08/04 Based on the Lee Family Tartan and using the school colours of green and gold plus the saltire blue stripe of the Presbyterian church. The red is dedicated to the late Rev. Edgar Tufts and the white is dedicated to the teacher Elizabeth. The black is for the local mountains. McRae Sample in archives - colours here good. - 1999 — Lees-McRae College (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Marjorie Warren, North Carolina for the Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, North Carolina. Lees-McRae College is at the base of Grandfather Mountain, the site of the largest Highland Games on the east coast of the USA.. The college is a Presbyterian school of about 400 and holds summer schools in piping, dancing etc. Officially Recorded 17.8.04 Based on the Lee Family Tartan and using the school colours of green and gold plus the saltire blue stripe of the Presbyterian church. The red is dedicacted to the late Rev. Edgar Tufts and the white is dedicated to the teacher Elizabeth. The black is for the local mountains. McRaeSample in archives - colours here good.
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
- 1999 (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: 2084
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4130
Thread count
DG/8 DR2 DG24 K2 LY8 K2 DG6 T10 W/4
One full sett is 120 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s9/dg4dr1dg12k1ly4k1dg3t5w2~x2/