Otago
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 KYKRKBGBWBGBKRKYKY.
Part of the Otago tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3275
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1988 — Otago (register-of-tartans, record)
A district tartan with the authority of the Otago District Council. To commemorate the early settlers to Otago who were mostly Crofters and Shepherds form Scotland, seeking to settle the land. Many other nationalities came seeking their fortunes in the Goldfields of Otago and stayed. License to distribute is held by The Suit Surgeons Ltd, New Zealand. - Jun. 1994 — Otago (District) (tartans-authority, record)
A district tartan with the authority of the Otago District Council. To commemorate the early settlers to Otago who were mostly Crofters and Shepherds form Scotland, seeking to settle the land. Many other nationalities came seeking their fortunes in the Goldfields of Otago and stayed. License to distribute is held by The Suit Surgeons Ltd, 120 Lower Stuart Street, Dunedin, New Zealand, phone +64 3 477-1001 or fax +64 3 477-1002.
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
- 1988 (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: 3275
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2317
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2317
Thread count
LY/32 K4 LY12 K4 R4 K4 DB30 G2 DB2 W4 DB2 G2 DB30 K4 R4 K4 LY12 K/4
One full sett is 284 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/ly16k2ly6k2r2k2db15g1db1w2~x2/