California State
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 GKGRGRGRGKBKW.
Part of the California State tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=482
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/09/1997 — California State (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by J Howard Standing, Tarzana, California, and Thomas Ferguson, Sydney, British Columbia. Adopted as the official California State tartan by the State Legislature on July 23rd 2001 by California Governor Gray Davis. For general use by all those living in the State. Closely based on the Muir tartan (STR ref #3039) after the famous botanist and environmentalist, John Muir, who lived in California. - 1998 — California State (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by J.Howard Standing of Tarzana, California and Thomas Ferguson of Sydney, British Columbia. Adopted as the 'official' California State tartan by the State Legislature. For general use by all those living in the State. Closely based on the Muir tartan (#345) after the famous botanist/environmentalist John Muir who lived in California. Assembly Bill 2362, February 20th 1998. The legislation approving this as the State tartan was passed on July 23rd 2001 by California Governor Gray Davis.
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
- 01/09/1997 (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: 482
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2454
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2454
Thread count
Y/8 K2 G20 R4 G20 R8 G20 R4 G20 K32 T56 K2 LB/8
One full sett is 392 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | oklch(61.7% 0.067 235.0) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #A8ACE8 #A8ACE8 | oklch(76.3% 0.086 281.2) |
| 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/s13/y4k1g10r2g10r4g10r2g10k16t28k1lb4x2t2503227-lb3103284/