Connecticut, State of
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 BRWRGGGRGR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=744
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1994 An asymmetric tartan designed by three professors at Three Rivers Community College in Norwich, Connecticut - Brent A. Maynard (Professor of Nuclear Engineering Technology), Kathleen Swope and Noel Alexis. Adopted by legislature and signed into law by and Governor John Rowland, 22 May 1995. Blue is for the Long Island sound, green for the forests, red and yellow for the autumn leaves, grey for granite and white for snow. The offset white symbolises the irregularity of the Connecticut snowfall. Official count given as Blue-10, gray-2, white-1, gray-5, green-8, yellow-1, green-2, red-1, green-8, gray-8 and blue-10.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1994 — Connecticut, State of (register-of-tartans, record)
An asymmetric tartan designed by three professors at Three Rivers Community College in Norwich, Connecticut - Brent A. Maynard ( Professor of Nuclear Engineering Technology), Kathleen Swope and Noel Alexis. Adopted by legislature and signed into law by and Governor John Rowland, 22 May 1995. Blue is for the Long Island sound, green for the forests, red and yellow for the autumn leaves, grey for granite and white for snow. The offset white symbolises the irregularity of the Connecticut snowfall. Official count given as Blue-10, gray-2, white-1, gray-5, green-8, yellow-1, green-2, red-1, green-8, gray-8 and blue-10. - 1994 — Connecticut State American District 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
- 1994 (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: 744
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2671
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2671
Thread count
T/80 O8 W4 O20 G32 Y4 G8 R4 G32 O/32
One full sett is 336 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| N | #646464 #646464 | oklch(50.3% 0.000 89.9) |
| O | #888888 #888888 | oklch(62.7% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | oklch(99.1% 0.000 89.9) |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | oklch(99.1% 0.000 89.9) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/t20o2w1o5g8y1g2r1g8o8x4o2500000-w4000000-r2109032/