Carolina University, Western
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 GKBKG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 5 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5149
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1998 — Carolina University, Western (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Matthew Newsome of the Tartans Museum in North Calorina and based on the Montgomery tartan as a tribute to Col. Archibald Montgomery and the 77th Highland Regiment that campaigned against the Cherokee Indians in western NC in the 18th century. Not known if ever commercially woven. Rough weave sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Johnston Collection. - 1998 — Western Carolina University (Corp.) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Matthew Newsome of the Tartans Museum in North Calorina and based on the Montgomery tartan as a tribute to Col. Archibald Montgomery and the 77th Highland Regiment that campaigned against the Cherokee Indians in western NC in the 18th century. Not known if ever commercially woven. Rough weave sample in STA Johnston Collection.
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
- 1998 (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: 5149
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3893
Thread count
DG/2 K4 DP54 K4 DY/2
One full sett is 128 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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/s5/dy1k2dp27k2dg1~x2/