Wisconsin in Scotland
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 BGBBBRWRBBBGBWBGBBBRWRBBBGBG.
Part of the Wisconsin in Scotland tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 28 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4766
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1997 Possibly designed by Morgan Clifford for use by the various departments of the University of Wisconsin that maintained (maintains?) a cultural study centre south of Edinburgh at Dalkeith. Count multiplied by four to show sett.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/07/1996 — Wisconsin in Scotland (register-of-tartans, record)
Possibly designed by Morgan Clifford for use by the various departments of the University of Wisconsin that maintains a cultural study centre south of Edinburgh at Dalkeith. Count multiplied by four to show sett. - 1997 — Wisconsin in Scotland Corporate Univ 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
- 01/07/1996 (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: 4766
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2323
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2323
Thread count
DB/88 DY8 DR16 N8 DR16 R16 W8 R16 DR16 N8 DR16 DY8 DB88 W8 DB88 DY8 DR16 N8 DR16 R16 W8 R16 DR16 N8 DR16 DY8 DB88 DY/8
One full sett is 1184 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s28/db11dy1dr2n1dr2r2w1r2dr2n1dr2dy1db11w1db11dy1dr2n1dr2r2w1r2dr2n1dr2dy1db11dy1~x8/