Oklahoma State University
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 BWKY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 4 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5803
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2008 — Oklahoma State University (register-of-tartans, record)
Oklahoma City design, housing and merchandising junior, Stephanie Michalko's weave of orange, black, gray and white threads received the most votes for her original tartan plaid design in on-line balloting. In September 2008 OSU students who had completed a course in textiles were eligible for the competition to design an original plaid that reflected the OSU spirit. Four finalists were selected and voting began in October. Michalko said she was excited to have her design chosen. - Dec. 2008 — Oklahoma State University (Corporate (tartans-authority, record)
The official Oklahoma State University Tartan is now a part of the university?s tradition. Oklahoma City design, housing and merchandising junior, Stephanie Michalko?s weave of orange, black, gray and white threads received the most votes for her original tartan plaid design in on-line balloting In September OSU students who had completed a course in textiles were eligible for the competition to design an original plaid that reflects the OSU spirit. Four finalists were selected and voting began in October. Michalko said she was excited to have her design chosen. 'I am an interior design major, but I am very interested in textiles and their use in interior design,. This was a great experience to be able to apply what I have learned.' Stadium blankets and scarves were woven by Pendleton Woolen Mills of Portland, Oregon. Woven sample.
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
- 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: 5803
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7851
Thread count
LO/80 K52 W7 N/12
One full sett is 210 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
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/s4/lo80k52w7n12/