Michigan State District 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 BWBWYGYGRG.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=3473
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2002 Designed by Michigan weaver Kati Meek, this was originally called 'Michigan up North' referring to Upper Northern Michigan whose landscape inspired the colours. Scottish groups had been campaigning for years for a State tartan and the process of seeking State approval and adoption was initiated in February 2007 with increased pressure when Wisconsin became the latest Midwest state to adopt its own tartan, leaving Michigan as the only Great Lakes State without one. In 2010 Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Lt. Gov. John Cherry proclaimed the design to be the official Michigan State Tartan.
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
- 2002 (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
DB/36 W2 DB8 W2 LO8 G2 LO4 G24 R4 G/8
One full sett is 152 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #509884 #509884 | oklch(62.7% 0.079 173.5) |
| T | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | oklch(61.7% 0.067 235.0) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| R | #901C38 #901C38 | oklch(43.2% 0.150 13.1) |
| R | #940000 #940000 | oklch(41.9% 0.172 29.2) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | oklch(99.1% 0.000 89.9) |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | oklch(99.1% 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/s10/db18w1db4w1lo4g1lo2g12r2g4x2w4000000-r1707033/