William and Mary GALA, Inc, The
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 KBGGGGGGGBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=711
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2004 — William and Mary GALA, Inc, The (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Carol Worthley of South Hiram, Maine for Stephen H Snell of Alexandria, Virginia and donated by his estate to the William and Mary Gay and Lesbian Alumni, Inc. - 2004. — William & Mary GALA (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by "a tartan designer, Carol Worthley of South Hiram, Maine" for the Alma Mater of Stephen H Snell of Alexandria, Virginia - the College of William & Mary in VA. Stephen Snell has donated the tartan to the Earl Gregg Swem Library in that College to be sold by it as a fundraiser. The gift was declined because the college was legally unable to risk expenditure on having it woven. In 2011 the name was changed to 'William and Mary' and the tartan was the gifted by Mr Snell to an associated organistion - "William and Mary GALA, Inc. 'GALA' being the 'Gay and Lesbian Alumni ' August 2014: name changed to William & Mary Gala Foundation. May 2012: Stephen Snell (College of William & Mary class of 1966) passed away from cancer before his gifting of the tartan to the College of William & Mary and its library would be accepted and finalized. Therefore the tartan remains the property of the nonprofit corporation of which Mr. Snell had been a former president, William and Mary GALA Inc.
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
- 2004 (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: 711
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6522
Thread count
K/6 DB20 DG50 Y4 DG4 Y6 DG4 Y4 DG50 DB20 W/6
One full sett is 336 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s11/k3db10dg25y2dg2y3dg2y2dg25db10w3~x2/