Michigan State University
Bands: GWRGWGK · Stripes: G W O G W G K G W O G W G K
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2476
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/2005 — Michigan State University (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 2005 — Michigan State University (Corporate (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — Michigan State University American Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 6776. Earliest known date: 2005 Designed to celebrate and commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the founding of Michigan State University. Woven sample. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2476
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6776
Thread count
G/18 W55 N19 G20 W2 G20 K/5

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| N | #888888 #888888 | R #CC0000 | 0.24 |
| W | #FFFFFF #FFFFFF | W #F7F7F7 | 0.02 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
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- MacDiarmid, dress — ΔT 1.47
- Dogwood — ΔT 1.47
- MacDiarmid Dress — ΔT 1.50
- Dogwood Trade Tartan Tartan Number: 913. Earliest known date: 1968 The registered tartan of the Dinwiddie Clan. Dinwiddies are normally associated with the Maxwells, but Lord Lyon stated, in 1988, that Dinwiddies were a sept of no other clan. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.53
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /setts/s7/g18w55o19g20w2g20k5/