Calgary (Fashion)

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 BBBBGYGBYBYBY.

Part of the Calgary tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 13 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/3784/ — retired · Internet Archive copy

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
1973 (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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body’s archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired; dead record links are shown unlinked, with an Internet Archive copy (ITI numbers are not SRT references)
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

LR/4 DB4 LR12 DB6 LR6 DB8 G8 LO4 G8 DB8 B8 DB2 B/4

One full sett is 156 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
B#466CC8 #466CC8oklch(55.1% 0.149 265.0)
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
LO#FF9C34 #FF9C34oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
LR#FF9C97 #FF9C97oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2)

Sample pattern

LR/4 DB4 LR12 DB6 LR6 DB8 G8 LO4 G8 DB8 B8 DB2 B/4 tartan

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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.

Calgary (Deerskin Trading Post)Scotia Trade TartanGreerRainbow (Canada)BelwadeLoch KatrineRalston (UK)groundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s13/b2db1b4db4g4lo2g4db4lr3db3lr6db2lr2~x2/

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