Holyoke St. Patrick's

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 RBGBGBGBGW.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10764

Provenance

Earliest known date: 2002 Designed in 2002 by Gerald D Healy (2002 President) & Ralf L Hartwell Jnr for the Holyoke St Patrick's Committee in Holyoke Massachusetts which is home to the second largest St Patrick's parade in the USA. Colours chosen: red, white & blue from the US flag; green white and gold from the Irish flag and the Parade Committee; green & white from the Holyoke Community College; purple & white from the Holyoke Catholic High School and black & gold from the Dean Vocational High School.

3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 17/03/2002 — Holyoke St. Patrick's (register-of-tartans, record)
    Designed in 2002 by Gerald D Healy (2002 President) & Ralf L Hartwell Jr for the Holyoke St Patrick's Committee in Holyoke Massachusetts which is home to the second largest St Patrick's parade in the USA. Colours chosen: red, white & blue from the US flag; green white and gold from the Irish flag and the Parade Committee; green & white from the Holyoke Community College; purple & white from the Holyoke High School; green and gold from the Holyoke Catholic High School and black & gold from the Dean Vocational High School.
  • 2002 — Holyoke St Patrick's (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
    Designed in 2002 by Gerald D Healy (2002 President) & Ralf L Hartwell Jnr for the Holyoke St Patrick's Committee in Holyoke Massachusetts which is home to the second largest St Patrick's parade in the USA. Colours chosen: red, white & blue from the US flag; green white and gold from the Irish flag and the Parade Committee; green & white from the Holyoke Community College; purple & white from the Holyoke Catholic High School and black & gold from the Dean Vocational High School. Registered with the STA on 10.2.2003 and given the Number 5780. Appears to have re-registered with the SRT and numbered 10764. Where the STA's original entry went is not known.
  • 2002 — Holyoke St Patrick's Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
17/03/2002 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

R/16 DB16 DG2 DB2 DG54 DP2 Y2 DP6 Y6 W/2

One full sett is 198 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
DG#053819 #053819oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

R/16 DB16 DG2 DB2 DG54 DP2 Y2 DP6 Y6 W/2 tartan

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