Hong Kong, University 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 GKRGYKBKGKWKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10713
Provenance
Earliest known date: 11 October 2012 Gifted by Aberdeen University to Hong Kong University on the occasion of Hong Kong University's centenary in 2012. Granted in 1913, the University Arms are reflected in this centenary tartan: the red and gold represent the lion on its field of red; azure and light green symbolise Hong Kong's island status; the narrow black lines on white denote the open book in the Arms and the University's role in learning and knowledge.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 04/06/2012 — Hong Kong, University of (register-of-tartans, record)
Gifted by Aberdeen University to Hong Kong University on the occasion of Hong Kong University's centenary in 2012. Granted in 1913, the University Arms are reflected in this centenary tartan: the red and gold represent the lion on its field of red; azure and light green symbolise Hong Kong's island status; the narrow black lines on white denote the open book in the Arms and the University's role in learning and knowledge. - 11 October 2012 — Hong Kong, University of Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, 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
- 04/06/2012 (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: 10713
Thread count
Y/4 K2 R4 DG12 LG10 K2 DB10 K2 DG84 K2 W4 K2 W/4
One full sett is 276 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #0B5604 #0B5604 | oklch(39.5% 0.129 141.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LG | #68C993 #68C993 | oklch(76.2% 0.122 157.4) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s13/y2k1r2dg6lg5k1db5k1dg42k1w2k1w2x2dg1605139-lg3005163/