New Zealand (2003)
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 KBKYBYKGKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3125
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2003 — New Zealand (2003) (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan was promoted by the Piping & Dancing Association of New Zealand. The tartan was launched on 26th February 2003 at the Beehive in New Zealand by the late Frank MacKinnon, then President of the Piping & Dancing Association of New Zealand, and Helen Clark, then Prime Minister and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage. - 2003 — New Zealand (District) 2003) (tartans-authority, record)
Helen Clark, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, and the President of the Piping & Dancing Association of NZ, the late Frank MacKinnon, launched the New Zealand Tartan at the New Zealand Parliament on 26th February 2003. The creation of the tartan was promoted by the Piping & Dancing Association of NZ who hold the registered trademark. The New Zealand Tartan Co Ltd has the exclusive rights to manufacture & distribution. This should not necessarily be regarded as New Zealand's national tartan - #4215 has staked a counter claim and the STA is keeping a watching brief.
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
- 2003 (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: 3125
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5790
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2850
Thread count
K/6 DB18 K4 LY10 DB2 LY10 K4 DG30 K2 R/6
One full sett is 172 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) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/k3db9k2ly5db1ly5k2dg15k1r3~x2/