Avalon - Carroll House
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 WKBKBKBKBGWGKW.
Part of the Avalon tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=145
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/09/2004 — Avalon - Carroll House (register-of-tartans, record)
The 'master' tartan for Avalon School in Maryland (6300 Tilden Lane, Rockville MD 20852). Each school house has its own tartan - Calvert House, carroll House, Stewart House, Washington House. In Jan 2005 James Bostick was a staff member of Avalon independent boys school, founded in 2002. All the tartans were woven by Fraser & Kirkbright of Victoria, British Columbia. - 2004 Sept — Avalon - Carroll House (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Avalon School (6300 Tilden Lane, Rockville MD 20852) his its own corporate tartan plus four house tartans - the other three can be seen at 6363, 6364 & 6365. The designer James Bostick is (Jan 2005) a staff member of this school which was founded in 2002 - an independent boys' school. All tartans woven by Fraser & Kirkbright of Victoria, British Columbia.
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
- 01/09/2004 (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: 145
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6362
Thread count
W/6 K2 T30 K12 T10 K6 T16 K4 T10 Y6 W4 Y8 K2 W/6
One full sett is 232 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| G | #408060 #408060 | oklch(54.8% 0.084 160.1) |
| DG | #006818 #006818 | oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 2.49 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/w3k1t15k6t5k3t8k2t5y3w2y4k1w3~x2/