Christopher Newport University
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 BKWKWKWBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10862
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/06/2012 — Christopher Newport University (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Michael Cannon, Collegiate Tartan Apparel, for Christopher Newport University (CNU). CNU was founded in 1960 as Christopher Newport College, a branch of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and was named for the 17th-century English mariner who helped establish the Jamestown Colony. The University became independent in 1977 and gained university status in 1992. Collegiate Tartan Apparel presented several tartan designs using the official CNU colours of blue and silver to an alumni focus group which selected three designs. All members of the Christopher Newport Alumni Society were then given the opportunity to vote for the design which they felt best represented their alma mater. - 2013 — Christopher Newport University (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Michael Cannon, Collegiate Tartan Apparel, for Christopher Newport University (CNU). CNU was founded in 1960 as Christopher Newport College, a branch of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and was named for the 17th-century English mariner who helped establish the Jamestown Colony. The University became independent in 1977 and gained university status in 1992. Collegiate Tartan Apparel presented several tartan designs using the official CNU colours of blue and silver to an alumni focus group which selected three designs. All members of the Christopher Newport Alumni Society were then given the opportunity to vote for the design which they felt best represented their alma mater.
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
- 01/06/2012 (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: 10862
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10862
Thread count
DB/10 K2 LB4 K2 W12 K2 LB4 DB50 LB/4
One full sett is 166 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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/s9/db5k1lb2k1w6k1lb2db25lb2~x2/