Tartan Day SA
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 WBGGGRGW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10059
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 07/07/2009 — Tartan Day SA (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan is owned by the Leon and Walker families. Following Tartan Day Scotland 2008, three South Africans approached Angus Council with a view to develop a Tartan Day South Africa celebration. This has resulted in a Tartan Day South Africa Golf Challenge across 15 courses in the country, with the four winners attending the Tartan Day Scotland International Golf Challenge in 2010. Strathmore Woollen Co Ltd designed this tartan to commemorate the links between Scotland and South Africa. The colours incorporated in the sett of the tartan convey the following: blue represents one of the many shades of Blue in the night skies of South Africa; green represents the South African Veldt; red represents the fine Wines of South Africa; yellow represents the gold on which the South African economy stands; white represents the partnership with Scotland by completing the formation of the Saltire. - 7th July 2009 — Tartan Day SA (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
This tartan is owned by the Leon and Walker families. Following Tartan Day Scotland 2008, three South Africans approached Angus Council with a view to develop a Tartan Day South Africa celebration. This has resulted in a Tartan Day South Africa Golf Challenge across 15 courses in the country, with the four winners attending the Tartan Day Scotland International Golf Challenge in 2010. Strathmore Woollen Co Ltd designed this tartan to commemorate the links between Scotland and South Africa. The colours incorporated in the sett of the tartan convey the following: blue represents one of the many shades of Blue in the night skies of South Africa; green represents the South African Veldt; red represents the fine Wines of South Africa; yellow represents the gold on which the South African economy stands; white represents the partnership with Scotland by completing the formation of the Saltire.
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
- 07/07/2009 (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: 10059
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10059
Thread count
W/4 DB80 G44 Y6 G4 R6 G4 W/4
One full sett is 296 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) |
| 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/w2db40g22y3g2r3g2w2~x2/