American Heritage
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 BKBKBKBKBKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=69
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/12/2006 — American Heritage (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by William C (Rocky) Roeger III of USA Kilts to honour Americans with or without Celtic heritage. It is a private fashion tartan designed for anyone to wear regardless of clan affiliation. The colours red, white and blue were chosen to represent the colours of the American flag. The colour black was chosen in remembrance of the brave men and women who have died in defence of our country. - December 2006 — American Heritage (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by William C. (Rocky) Roeger III of usakilts.com to honor Americans with or without Celtic heritage. It is a private fashion tartan designed for ANYONE to wear regardless of clan affiliation. The colors red, white and blue were chosen to represent the colors of thge American flag. The color black was chosen in remembrance of the brave men and women who have died in defense of our country. Woven sample. Only source is Rocky Roeger.
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
- 01/12/2006 (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: 69
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7087
Thread count
W/5 K2 DB14 K4 DR8 K4 DB4 K80 DR6 K4 DR/4
One full sett is 261 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| 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/w5k2db14k4dr8k4db4k80dr6k4dr4/