Alabama (Provisional)
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 RWBWBRBRBRBBWBWBBBWBWBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 23 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=35
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2006 Designed in 2006 by Joseph Ryan Morrison, member of the planning committee for the first annual Tartan Day celebration in Alabama which will take place in Birmingham in April 2007. The five white stripes represent the region's first flag - the Bonnie Blue Flag which comprised a white, five pointed star on a blue background which was later adopted by Texas (the 'Lone Star State') and which became an unofficial flag of the Confederate States of America. The azure is for the State's clear blue skies, the navy the splendour of the Gulf waters and the grey the state's Confederate heritage while the combination of crimson, white and blue celebrates the State's inclusion in the Union. The bright crimson stripe flanked by the white represents the official State flag - the crimson saltire.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2006 — Alabama (Provisional) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed in 2006 by Joseph Ryan Morrison, member of the planning committee for the first annual Tartan Day celebration in Alabama which will take place in Birmingham in April 2007. The five white stripes represent the region's first flag - the Bonnie Blue Flag which comprised a white, five pointed star on a blue background which was later adopted by Texas (the 'Lone Star State') and which became an unofficial flag of the Confederate States of America. The azure is for the State's clear blue skies, the navy the splendour of the Gulf waters and the grey the state's Confederate heritage while the combination of crimson, white and blue celebrates the State's inclusion in the Union. The bright crimson stripe flanked by the white represents the official State flag - the crimson saltire. - 2006 — Alabama 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
- 2006 (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: 35
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6980
Thread count
Ri/10 W6 DB4 W2 DB8 R2 DB2 R6 DB2 R2 DB8 N8 LB2 N2 LB2 N8 DB8 T50 W2 T4 W4 T4 W/6
One full sett is 288 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | oklch(34.5% 0.089 246.0) |
| R | #901C38 #901C38 | oklch(43.2% 0.150 13.1) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #A00048 #A00048 | oklch(45.4% 0.182 5.3) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
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/s23/ri5w3db2w1db4r1db1r3db1r1db4n4lb1n1lb1n4db4t25w1t2w2t2w3x2ri2109032-db1404245-r1706009/