Pride of New Zealand
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 BKWK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 4 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3373
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1989 — Pride of New Zealand (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Ivan Coward a bespoke tailor with help from John Clark of Alliance Textiles, Timaru, New Zealand . For use by all New Zealanders with black representing the famous 'All Blacks' rugby team, grey for the multi cultural makeup of the population and the white for the snow of the mountains. License to distribute is held by The Suit Surgeons Ltd, New Zealand. - August 1999 — Pride of New Zealand (District?) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Ivan Coward a bespoke tailor with help from John Clark of the weavers, Alliance Textiles, Timaru, New Zealand . For use by all New Zealanders with black representing the famous 'All Blacks' rugby team, grey for the multi cultural makeup of the population and the white for the snow of the mountains. As from June 2014 distributed by the The Scottish Shop of DUNEDIN. info@scottishshop.co.nz.
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
- 1989 (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: 3373
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2632
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2632
Thread count
N/124 K60 W2 K/2
One full sett is 250 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/n62k30w1k1~x2/