Hudson's Bay (Corporate)
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 RBGBKBGBKWKR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1612
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1984 Designed by Gordon Kirkbright now (2002) of Fraser & Kirkbright, Vancouver, when he worked with West Coast Woolen Mill. Orange sometimes given as Red. Often woven in reprocolours where black becomes a dark brown.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1974, pre — Hudson's Bay (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Sindex card:- "Details from (the late) Dr.Wm E Johnston, Lockwood, Skippack, P.O. Box 523 PA 1974. 'House Plaid - West Lothian Woollen Mills of Hudson Bay.' The red on midnight blue is sometimes given as orange but this count here follows that from the CIDD. An alternative derivation is that it was designed by Gordon Kirkbright (now of Fraser & Kirkbright, Vancouver) when with West Coast Woolen Mill. Gordon says (Sept 2002) that it was a fashion tartan made for the Hudson Bay Company. Despite the earliest known date of 1974 the design was not registered in the CIDD until 6th November 1984 and is held by "The Governors and Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay, also known as the Hudson's Bay Company Winnipeg, Manitoba." No colours were specified . It's possible that both derivations are correct and that West Lothian Woollen Mills was retailing a Hudson Bay tartan.. - 1984 — Hudson Bay Company Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Hudson, Bay Company (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 1974, pre (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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 Tartans Authority (ITI): 1612
Thread count
R/4 K68 W4 K4 N54 G2 N4 K6 N4 Y2 N4 R/4
One full sett is 312 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s12/r2k34w2k2n27g1n2k3n2y1n2r2~x2/