Meiji Rugby 1923
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 BWBBWBWBWBBBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10037
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 11/05/2009 — Meiji Rugby 1923 (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed for Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, this tartan is on a deep purple base as this is considered to be one of the noblest colours and is used by the University to instill the highest levels of ambition and achievement in their students. - May 2009 — Meiji Rugby 1923 (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Lochcarron of Scotland for Meiji University in Tokyo which was founded in 1881. The deep purple used as the ground colour is regarded as one of the most noble of colours and is used by the University to instill the highest levels of ambition and achievement amongst its students. In the woven sample the purple and dark blue are so close as to be almost indistinguishable.
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
- 11/05/2009 (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: 10037
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10037
Thread count
DP/4 W4 DP46 DB2 W6 DB14 W2 DB4 W2 DB2 DP10 DB24 W/4
One full sett is 240 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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/s13/dp2w2dp23db1w3db7w1db2w1db1dp5db12w2~x2/