West Virginia
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 YGBGWRWKRGRBGY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5649
Provenance
Earliest known date: May 2008 Adapted from 4252 - West Virginia Shawl by Dr Phil Smith and John A Grant III. Adopted by the West Virginia senate (HCR #29) on March 6th 2008. Part of the resolution reads: "Whereas, In order to complement our mountain state the color red is to represent the cardinal (State bird); yellow for the fall colors; dark blue for the mountain rivers and lakes; black for the black bear, coal and oil; green for the rhododendron and mountain meadows; azure for the sky above; and white to have all the colors of this great nation intertwined with the State of West Virginia; therefore, be it Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia: That the adaption, as described above, of the West Virgina Shawl be designated the Official Tartan of the State of West Virginia."
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 27/05/2008 — West Virginia (register-of-tartans, record)
Adapted from the West Virginia Shawl tartan and adopted by the West Virginia senate (HCR #29) on March 6th 2008. The colours have been chosen to represent the mountain state as follows: red for the Cardinal, the State bird; yellow for the Sugar Maple, the State tree, and the fall colors; dark blue for the mountain rivers and lakes; black for the Black Bear, the State animal, and for coal and oil; green for the Rhododendron, the State Flower, and mountain meadows; azure for the sky above; and white to have all the colors of this great nation intertwined with the State of West Virginia. - May 2008 — West Virginia (US State) (tartans-authority, record)
Adapted from 4252 - West Virginia Shawl by Dr Phil Smith and John A Grant III. Adopted by the West Virginia senate (HCR #29) on March 6th 2008. Part of the resolution reads: "Whereas, In order to complement our mountain state the color red is to represent the cardinal (State bird); yellow for the fall colors; dark blue for the mountain rivers and lakes; black for the black bear, coal and oil; green for the rhododendron and mountain meadows; azure for the sky above; and white to have all the colors of this great nation intertwined with the State of West Virginia; therefore, be it Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia: That the adaption, as described above, of the West Virgina Shawl be designated the Official Tartan of the State of West Virginia;" Woven sample by Marjorie Warren. - May 2008 — West Virginia State American District 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
- 27/05/2008 (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: 5649
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7631
Thread count
LY/8 G8 DB16 R16 G16 R54 K6 W2 R54 LB12 G16 DB16 G8 LY/8
One full sett is 464 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s14/ly4g4db8r8g8r27k3w1r27lb6g8db8g4ly4~x2/