Oregon State University
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 KYKWYKYWKYK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10131
Provenance
Earliest known date: Dec 2005 During the 2004-2005 academic year, the Department of Design and Human Environment sponsored an OSU Tartan Textile Design competition. OSU students designed and submitted entries of original tartans (cloth woven in a plaid pattern) to be used for OSU licensed products. A panel of jurors selected the top three designs. Students, faculty, alums and friends were asked to vote on a website for their favorite design from the three finalists. Over 1600 votes were received. The winning design was the one that received the greatest number of votes. It is now being used in licensed OSU products. A portion of the royalties received on sales of products incorporating the OSU Tartan is being used directly to enhance undergraduate programs in Design and Human Environment. Using the University colours, the design reflects the comminuty of students, alumni, faculty and friends of the OSU.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/08/2005 — Oregon State University (register-of-tartans, record)
The tartan originated out of an Oregon State University tartan design competition run through the College of Health and Human Sciences. The competition provided students with an opportunity to apply their skills to a real-life project. 24 entries were narrowed down to 3 finalists which were posted to the University’s web site. Alumni, students, faculty, and fans voted online for the winning design. - Dec 2005 — Oregon State University (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
During the 2004-2005 academic year, the Department of Design and Human Environment sponsored an OSU Tartan Textile Design competition. OSU students designed and submitted entries of original tartans (cloth woven in a plaid pattern) to be used for OSU licensed products. A panel of jurors selected the top three designs. Students, faculty, alums and friends were asked to vote on a website for their favorite design from the three finalists. Over 1600 votes were received. The winning design was the one that received the greatest number of votes. It is now being used in licensed OSU products. A portion of the royalties received on sales of products incorporating the OSU Tartan is being used directly to enhance undergraduate programs in Design and Human Environment. Using the University colours, the design reflects the comminuty of students, alumni, faculty and friends of the OSU. - Dec 2005 — Oregon State University 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
- 01/08/2005 (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: 10131
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10131
Thread count
K/12 LO16 K26 W2 LO22 K2 LO22 W8 K4 LO2 K/4
One full sett is 224 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/k6lo8k13w1lo11k1lo11w4k2lo1k2~x2/