Carolina, States of
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 RWKGKWKRGRKRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=573
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1980 Based on a fragment of a coat of the Royal Company of Archers dated c.1730, believed to be the same sett as was used for the wedding ribbons of Charles II in 1661. The tartan commemorates the historic link.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1980 — Carolina, States of (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Peter MacDonald (Assistant Curator, Scottish Tartans Society) in 1980 for the St. Andrews Societies of North & South Carolina, as a Carolina tartan. Worn by the Cross Creek Pipe Band of Fayetteville in the 1980s and by the North Carolina State University Pipes & Drums in a 'weathered' sett, both woven by Dalgliesh. Adopted as official state tartan by the state of North Carolina on 9 May 1991. Based on a fragment of a coat of the Royal Company of Archers c1730 and believed to be the sett used as wedding ribbons on the coat of King Charles II for his nuptials in 1661. He (Carolus) confirmed the Charters granted by his father Charles I to the states of North & South Carolina. - 1980 — Carolina District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Carolina (weddslist, 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
- 1980 (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: 573
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1377
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1377
Thread count
R/64 LB28 K32 Y6 K8 W8 K8 R2 G56 R26 K8 R8 W/4
One full sett is 448 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| 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/r32lb14k16y3k4w4k4r1g28r13k4r4w2~x2/