Arisaig NS Canada
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 GBWRBGKWWRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10170
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 28/01/2010 — Arisaig NS Canada (register-of-tartans, record)
Arisaig NS Canada was designed and adopted by the communities of Knoydart, McArras Brook, Arisaig, Doctors Brook Malignant Cove and Maryvale West located in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is a tribute to the area's rich history and a tribute to the district's early settlers and Scottish culture. This tartan is owned by the Arisaig Community Development Association who control its use and production. - pre 2010 — Arisaig (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Arisaig NS Canada was designed and adopted by the communities of Knoydart, McArras Brook, Arisaig, Doctors Brook Malignant Cove and Maryvale West located in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is a tribute to the area's rich history and a tribute to the district's early settlers and Scottish culture. This tartan is owned by the Arisaig Community Development Association who control its use and production. Permission to weave this tartan must be obtained from the Arisaig Community Development Association. Email: arisaigdevelopment@yahoo.ca.
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
- 28/01/2010 (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: 10170
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10170
Thread count
LB/8 R8 LB24 W24 K8 G8 DB16 R2 W2 DB2 Y/2
One full sett is 198 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 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/s11/lb4r4lb12w12k4g4db8r1w1db1y1~x2/