Dahlonega (District)
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 KWKGGR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7882
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1870 — Dahlonega (District) (tartans-authority, record)
This is also #5548 from the Bolingbroke & Jones records of 1870 and was adopted in January 2009 by the town of Dahlonega (Delonega) (gateway to the Appalachian Mountains) in Georgia, USA. The city's name since 1833 comes from the Cherokee-language word "Talonige" or "Dalonige", meaning 'yellow money' or 'gold' and ." the first major U.S. gold rush took place there in 1828 some twenty years before California. With a population of 3,6,38 (2000) it is located at the north end of Georgia 400, which connects Atlanta to many affluent suburbs to the north. It is consistently named as a best place to retire by many different publications, due to its low cost of living, vibrant activities, continuing education for seniors, festivals, and beautiful setting. From a pattern book belonging to C & F Bolingbroke & Jones of Norwich (England) which was compiled prior to 1870 and is at present (2002) in the possession of Norwich Museum. Bolingbroke & Jones closed in the 1890s. - undated — Unidentified No 79 (register-of-tartans, record)
This sett is taken from the records of Messrs Bolingbroke and Jones of Norwich, who were weavers around 1870. Some of the tartans have been adopted or modified in recent times as the copyright of the designs is now in the public domain. This collection is found in the Scottish Tartans Society archive. - undated — Unnamed, No 79 (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 1870 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 4333
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7882
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1057
Thread count
R/10 G36 Y4 K28 LB10 K/8
One full sett is 174 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s6/r5g18y2k14lb5k4~x2/