Indiana 'Cardinal'
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 BYGBGBGBGBGBGY.
Part of the Indiana "Cardinal" tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5393
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1992 — Indiana 'Cardinal' (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed 1992 by Jan Crook The Cardinal is the Indiana State bird. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authorities Johnston Collection. Checked against Jan Crook's thread count July 2003. State declined to adopt it in 1993. - 1992 — Indiana "Cardinal" (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed 1992 by Jan Crook The Cardinal is the Indiana State bird. Sample in STA's Johnston Collection. Checked against Jan Crook's thread count July 2003. State declined to adopt it in 1993 but the process has been initiated again in 2008.
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
- 1992 (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: 5393
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5251
Thread count
DB/32 LO4 G48 DR40 Y8 DR24 Y8 DR16 Y8 DR24 Y8 DR40 G48 LO/4
One full sett is 588 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| M | #CA047B #CA047B | oklch(55.0% 0.225 353.8) |
| 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/s8/db8lo1g12dr10y2dr6y2dr4~x4/