Utah 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 WBKBWBKGWKW.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10817

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 22/04/2013 — Utah State University (register-of-tartans, record)
    Designed for Utah State University (USU) "an institution dedicated to the land and its people", by the USU Scotsmen Pipe and Drum Corps Major, Dr James Pitts, based on the university colours Aggie Blue and Fighting White.
  • pre 2013 — Utah State University (tartans-authority, 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
22/04/2013 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

W/14 DB20 K14 DB14 LB14 DB90 K42 G42 LB8 K8 W/14

One full sett is 532 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)

Sample pattern

W/14 DB20 K14 DB14 LB14 DB90 K42 G42 LB8 K8 W/14 tartan

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

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