Ontario (Official)

In pattern GRGRGRBWBRBRW.

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripes tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3253

Attestations

This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.

• 01/01/1995 — Ontario (Official) (register-of-tartans, record)
• 1995 — Ontario (District) (tartans-authority, record)

Thread count

G/38 R2 G4 R4 G30 R2 Ka26 LN2 DB4 R4 DB42 R2 LN/6

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. Sutherland Old Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 930. Earliest known date: 1842 (1618) The earlier date refers to a letter from Gordon Earl of Sutherland instructing Murray of Dulrossie to 'remove the red and white lines from the plaids of the men so as to bring their dress into harmony with that of the other Septs.' This sett is also recorded by Smibert in 1850. Smiberts work lends greater authority to the accuracy of the tartan. Worn by the City of Nunawading Highland pipe band (Australia) (Strathallan 1994) See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.43
2. Sutherland (Clan) — ΔT 0.43
3. Kerby/Kirby — ΔT 0.61
4. Cochrane Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 994. Earliest known date: 1934 Lord Dundonald originally registered a version missing a red and a green stripe with Lord Lyon in 1974. There is a story that a fragment of this design was discovered in the foundations of a Perthshire house around the 1930's, thought to be of greater authenticity. However, other reports suggest that the missing stripes were simply a typing error. The sett is based on the old Lochaber district tartan which also provided a base for the MacDonald and the Cameron of Erracht. (All of which have four red stripes). The red and green have been restored in this version, which is now the approved tartan, and appears in the 'Appendix' of the Lyon Court Books dated 12th November 1984. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.67
5. Glen Orchy, or MacIntyre — ΔT 0.79
6. Selby (Name) — ΔT 0.83
7. Glen Orchy #2 or MacIntyre — ΔT 0.85
8. Selby — ΔT 0.85
9. Rankin — ΔT 0.89
10. Urquhart White Line Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 623. Earliest known date: 1842 Sample in Paton's collection. The Setts No: 249. Innes No 110. W & A K Johnston, 1906 It is interesting to note that much of the forged sixteenth century manuscript on which the Vestiarium Scoticum was based was supposedly transcribed by Sir Richard Urquhart in 1721. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.90

Neighbour map

Every grey dot is one of 15726 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.

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