Canberra, City of
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 BBKGKBKWKB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=551
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1997 — Canberra, City of (register-of-tartans, record)
Threadcount taken from a Strathmore Woollen Company sample. Designed by Peter Burrows and Stewart Smith with technical support from Strathmore. Colours represented: dark blue for the Canberra flag, gold (yellow) and white for the stars on the Canberra flag and medium blue for the Canberra Bluebell. Used by the Canberra City Pipes and Drums. - 1997 — Canberra, City of (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Count from a Stathmore Woollen sample. Designed by Peter Burrows and Stewart Smith with tech support from Strathmore. For the exclusive use by Messrs Scottish Flair of Jerrabomberra, NSW. Colours represented: dark blue for the Canberra flag,gold (yellow) and white for the stars on the Canberra flag and medium blue for the Canberra Bluebell. Assumed to be Fashion until evidence of District status is uncovered. Used by the Canberra City Pipes and Drums.
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
- 1997 (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: 551
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4449
Thread count
DT/152 DB44 K2 Y6 K2 DB6 K2 W4 K2 DB/20
One full sett is 308 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | oklch(99.1% 0.000 89.9) |
| W | #F8F8F8 #F8F8F8 | oklch(97.9% 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/s10/dt76db22k1y3k1db3k1w2k1db10~x2/