Essex County (Ontario)
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 WBBGGGKBKY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1131
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1983 — Essex County (Ontario) (register-of-tartans, record)
The Essex County district tartan was designed by Mrs Edyth Baker of Leamington, Ontario, Canada in 1983. She used colours representing the various industries of the region; agriculture, salt mining, car building and fishing. Azure blue symbolizes the sky and the water. The tartan was formally adopted by the Corporation of the County of Essex in 1984, and approved by the Leamington Council. The tartan is accredited by the Scottish Tartans Society. - 1983 — Essex County Ontario (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Mrs Bakes (died 1985) designed this in 1981 when she was 81 and chose the colours to symbolise this area of Canada. The tartan was formally adopted by the Corporation of the County of Essex on 4th April 1984. Golden yellow for the sun and the many cereal crops, green for the spring fields, pease and produce, red for the tomatoes, fruits and flag, blue for the kies and waterways, black for the automotive industry and white for the saltmines and fish. Essex is at the southernmost tip of Canada and was first settled, mostly by French people in the mid-1700s. Around 1747, the first permanent settlements began to appear on what is now the Canadian side of the Detroit River. Lower down the river, lands were occupied by native people known as Wyandots or "Hurons".
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
- 1983 (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: 1131
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1840
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1840
Thread count
LY/60 K2 DR8 K2 G6 DGi10 DG8 B12 DR4 W/4
One full sett is 168 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| B | #466CC8 #466CC8 | oklch(55.1% 0.149 265.0) |
| DG | #003000 #003000 | oklch(26.8% 0.091 142.5) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| DG | #005800 #005800 | oklch(39.9% 0.136 142.5) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s10/ly30k1dr4k1g3dgi5dg4b6dr2w2x2dgi1605139-dg1104144/