Lodge Isandlwana
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 GRGGGYBYBY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=11052
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 21/11/2013 — Lodge Isandlwana (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan was designed by Will Carter, Staghorn Scottish Outfitting, Cape Town, for the Isandlwana Freemasons Lodge, named to commemorate the Battle of Isandlwana in present day Kwa-Zulu Natal, on 22nd January 1879. Colours: dark green represents the battlefield; the crossing of the two red stripes represents the mixing of the blood of the two armies (Zulu and British) during the Battle of Isandlwana; the yellow and blue stripes reflect The South Africa Medal; and emerald is associated with the Masonic Grand Lodge of South Africa. - 2014 — Lodge Isandlwana (tartans-authority, record)
This tartan was designed by Will Carter, Staghorn Scottish Outfitting, Cape Town, for the Isandlwana Freemasons Lodge, named to commemorate the Battle of Isandlwana in present day Kwa-Zulu Natal, on 22nd January 1879. Colours: dark green represents the battlefield; the crossing of the two red stripes represents the mixing of the blood of the two armies (Zulu and British) during the Battle of Isandlwana; the yellow and blue stripes reflect The South Africa Medal; and emerald is associated with the Masonic Grand Lodge of South Africa.
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
- 21/11/2013 (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: 11052
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 11052
Thread count
DG/80 R16 DG52 G10 DG20 LY6 DB8 LY4 DB2 LY/32
One full sett is 348 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/dg40r8dg26g5dg10ly3db4ly2db1ly16~x2/