Nova Scotia (Province)
Bands: RYGGGGGBW · Stripes: R LY G G G G G DB W R LY G G G G G DB W
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3202
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1953 — Nova Scotia (Province) (register-of-tartans, record)
- Apr. 1954 — Nova Scotia (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3202
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1713
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1713
Thread count
R/2 Y4 G16 Ga8 G4 Ga4 G4 B40 W/4

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #38409C #38409C | B #2A418A | 0.04 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| Ga | #289C18 #289C18 | G #006100 | 0.19 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| W | #FFFFFF #FFFFFF | W #F7F7F7 | 0.02 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Nova Scotia — ΔT 0.63
- Canadian Centennial — ΔT 0.64
- German MacLeod — ΔT 0.68
- Heriot Watt University — ΔT 0.74
- Kleto, Susan (Personal) — ΔT 0.78
- O'Donohue Personal) — ΔT 0.83
- Blue Blas Alba — ΔT 0.89
- Unidentified (ex Tony Murray) — ΔT 0.95
- Caskie — ΔT 0.96
- Stuart/Stewart Blue — ΔT 1.01
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 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.
ID: /setts/s9/w2db20g2g2g2g4g8ly2r1~x2/