Gonzaga University’s True Blue and White
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 RBGBWBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=11068
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/03/2014 — Gonzaga University’s True Blue and White (register-of-tartans, record)
Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, USA, was founded by the Jesuits in 1887. This tartan was designed and launched in 2014 by the Marketing 490 Promotion Project class as a new symbol of the University’s history and traditions. The tartan incorporates blue and white, the University colours and green for the Italian heritage of the founder, Fr. Joseph Cataldo, and the Irish origins of the first pupils; its geometry represents aspects of the Catholic faith. - 2014 — Gonzaga University's True Blue and W (tartans-authority, record)
This tartan was designed by Sarah Hillman, as part of a project of the Marketing 490 Promotion Project class at Gonzaga University, Washington, USA. Gonzaga University was founded by the Jesuits in 1887. Gonzaga's official colours of blue and white also represent the Virgin Mary; the three white lines represent the Holy Trinity and Gonzaga's educational philosophy of educating the whole person, mind, body and spirit; the green lines represent the Italian heritage of Gonzaga's founding father, Fr Joseph Cataldo, St Aloysius Gonzaga and the Irish origins of the first students. The crosses, prevalent throughout the tartan, reflect the Catholic faith.
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
- 01/03/2014 (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: 11068
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 11068
Thread count
W/12 DB4 W6 DB4 G4 DB40 R/2
One full sett is 130 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s7/w6db2w3db2g2db20r1~x2/