Virginia Military Institute, New Market
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 GRBKBGBRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4467
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/09/1996 — Virginia Military Institute, New Market (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed in 1996 by Donnie Haseltine and Donald Fraser. Donnie Haseltine was a military cadet at the Virginia Institute & Donald Fraser was a designer/weaver in Berwick upon Tweed, Scotland. Yellow and white are the college colours and the red is for members of the College who fell during the Civil War. Tartan to be used by the Pipes & Drums of the Institute. Different warp and weft. Full name is Virginia Military Institute, New Market. The Battle of New Market was an American Civil War engagement in which the cadets from the Military College played a major part in winning. - October 1997 — Virginia Military Institute (Milit.) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed in 1996 by Donnie Haseltine and Donald Fraser - DH being a Military cadet at the Virginia Institute & Donald Fraser being a designer/weaver in Berwick upon Tweed, Scotland. Yellow and white are the college colours and the red is for members of the College who fell during the Civil War. Tartan to be used by the Pipes & Drums of the Institute. Different warp and weft. Full name is Virginia Military Institute, New Market. The Battle of New Market was an American Civil War engagement in which the cadets from the Military College played a major part in winning.
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
- 01/09/1996 (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: 4467
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2402
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2402
Thread count
DY/12 R60 N4 K6 N60 G6 N4 R50 W/12
One full sett is 404 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartan variants
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Neighbour map
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