Confederate Memorial Commemmorative 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 WBWRYGYRYY.
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=2501
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1995 Designed by Dr. Philip Smith in 1995. Grey is the colour of the Confederate States of America. The fields represent the Confederate Army in line of battle-- light blue for infantry, flanked by red for artilllery and yellow for outriding cavalry. The red field represents the Confederate flag in true proportions.
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
- 1995 (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
LG/16 LR4 R6 LR4 DY4 LR56 R20 LB2 DB6 LB/4
One full sett is 224 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LG | #82D67A #82D67A | oklch(80.1% 0.150 142.2) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/lg8lr2r3lr2dy2lr28r10lb1db3lb2~x2/