Dunedin (NZ)
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 GWGKRKYG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1041
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1988 — Dunedin (NZ) (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan was designed to commemorate the first settlers from the Free Church of Scotland who stepped ashore on the 23rd of March 1848, at Otago Harbour, New Zealand, after a voyage of 116 days. It was at the upper end of this harbour they established the first settlement which was to become the City of Dunedin sometimes known as the Edinburgh of the South. Dunedin District Tartan is the copyright property of Vilma R. Nelson. License to distribute is held by The Suit Surgeons Ltd, 120 Lower Stuart Street, Dunedin, New Zealand, phone +64 3 477-1001 or fax +64 3 477-1002. The small white stripes represent the first two ships; the blue strips the sea they crossed; the green for new pastures; the gold for crops grown. The red signifies blood ties left behind; and the black sadness for loved ones missed. - 1988 — Dunedin (NZ) (District) (tartans-authority, record)
This tartan was designed to commemorate the first settlers from the Free Church of Scotland who stepped ashore on the 23rd of March 1848, at Otago Harbour, New Zealand, after a voyage of 116 days. It was at the upper end of this harbour they established the first settlement which was to become the City of Dunedin sometimes known as the Edinburgh of the South. Dunedin District Tartan is the copyright property of Vilma R. Nelson. License to distribute is held by The Suit Surgeons Ltd of Dunedin. The small white stripes represent the first two ships; the blue strips the sea they crossed; the green for new pastures; the gold for crops grown. The red signifies blood ties left behind; and the black sadness for loved ones missed.
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
- 1988 (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: 1041
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2114
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2114
Thread count
Y/8 LY32 K8 R8 K8 G32 W8 G/8
One full sett is 208 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #048888 #048888 | oklch(56.8% 0.096 194.8) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LY | #70A870 #70A870 | oklch(67.8% 0.100 144.4) |
| 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/y1ly4k1r1k1g4w1g1x8ly2704144-g2304202/