Tennessee State (US State)
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 RBWBGRGBGW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3067
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1999 Official state tartan recorded at the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, 1999. This ties in with the tartan displayed on the Tennessee Highland Game website. Colour choice explained as follows: Green for Agriculture; Blue for the Smoky Mountains; Purple for the State Flower the Iris; Red for Sacrifices of Veterans and Pioneers of the Volunteer State; White to symbolize the 3 Grand Divisions of the State of Tennessee.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1999 — Tennessee State (US State) (tartans-authority, record)
Official state tartan. recorded by Phil Smith from a kilt at the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, 1999. This ties in with the tartan displayed on the Tennessee Highland Game website. Colour choice explained as follows: Green for Agriculture; Blue for the Smoky Mountains; Purple for the State Flower the Iris; Red for Sacrifices of Veterans & Pioneers of the Volunteer State; White to symbolize the 3 Grand Divisions of the State of Tennessee. Notes from Sates Symbols USA website: "Adopted as the official state tartan of Tennessee in 1999. The tartan was created by the Heart of Tennessee Scottish Celebration in conjunction with all the other Scottish societies in Tennessee. The tartan uses the colors natural white, dark green, purple, red, and dark blue." - 1999 — Tennessee State American District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Tennessee State (register-of-tartans, record)
Official state tartan. recorded by Phil Smith from a kilt at the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, 1999. This ties in with the tartan displayed on the Tennessee Highland Game website. Colour choice explained as follows: Green for Agriculture; Blue for the Smoky Mountains; Purple for the State Flower the Iris; Red for Sacrifices of Veterans & Pioneers of the Volunteer State; White to symbolize the 3 Grand Divisions of the State of Tennessee.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 1999 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 4998
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3067
Thread count
R/8 DB48 W4 DB4 G4 R4 G28 DB4 G48 W/4
One full sett is 300 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| 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.
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