New York Caledonian Club Day
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 GYGRGKWGWBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=11280
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 30/03/2015 — New York Caledonian Club Day (register-of-tartans, record)
Donated by the Scottish Tartans Authority in recognition of almost 160 years of the New York Caledonian Club's (NYCC) cultural and fellowship support for Scottish immigrants and their descendants. Included in the design are elements from the Fraser tartan (the very first 'Chief' of the Club was Alexander Fraser) the MacDonald (the 80th ‘Chief’ is John B. MacDonald) and the Cameron of Erracht tartan – worn by the famous 79th New York Highlanders, many of whom were members of the early NYCC. As a further link with the past the central green block contains thread counts of 18 and 56 – the year the Club was founded. - 2015 — New York Caledonian Club Day (tartans-authority, record)
This simple 'Traditionalist' design incorporates two tartans of significance to the New York Caledonian Club. The small green and blue square are 'lifted' from the Fraser tartan to commemorate Alexander Fraser, the Club's First President in 1856. The red lines on the large green square are a common design element present in the Cameron of Erracht tartan - worn by the 19th century 79th New York Highlanders - many of whom were recruited from the NY Caledonian Club. The two orange lines inside the red lines represent the flag of city of New York where the club was founded. The light blue stripe is to commemorate the birth date of club's tartan, September 16, 2014. Finally, the founding date of the Club is preserved with 18 threads in the central green square and 56 in the adjacent green square.
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
- 30/03/2015 (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: 11280
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 11280
Thread count
G/18 LO2 G4 R6 G56 K32 LB2 G16 LB2 DB16 R/2
One full sett is 292 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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/s11/g9lo1g2r3g28k16lb1g8lb1db8r1~x2/