Calgary, University of (Estimated Threadcount)
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 GRKRKRKRKRKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=478
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/09/2000 — Calgary, University of (Estimated Threadcount) (register-of-tartans, record)
The official Calgary University tartan which is also used by its pipe band. Designed by James Odell, a Calgary artist who normally produces silk screen prints. Jim is a graduate of University of Calgary, in Education and Fine Arts, and a member of the University of Calgary Pipe Band and Highland Dance Club. The tartan incorporates the University's official colours of red, black and gold. - pre 2002 — Calgary, University of (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
The official Calgary University tartan which is also used by its pipe band. Designed by James Odell, a Calgary artist who normally produces silk screen prints. Jim is a U of C education and fine arts graduate and a member of the U of C Pipe Band and Highland Dance Club. The tartan incorporates U of C?s official colours of red, black and gold. Estimated thread count for display purposes only.
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
- 01/09/2000 (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: 478
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4004
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2725
Thread count
R/16 K2 R2 K10 R2 K2 R16 K2 R2 K60 R2 Y/4
One full sett is 220 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s12/r8k1r1k5r1k1r8k1r1k30r1y2~x2/