Tilley, Sir Samuel Leonard
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 BGKYKWKBBKBKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4126
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Tilley, Sir Samuel Leonard (register-of-tartans, record)
One of the Fathers of the Confederation. Premier of New Brunswick and helped to form - and suggested the name for - The Dominion of Canada. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. Produced by Sainthill Levine and presumabley woven by WCWM. - pre 2002 — Tilley, Sir Samuel Leonard (Comm) (tartans-authority, record)
One of the Fathers of the Confederation. Premier of New Brunswick and helped to form - and suggested the name for - The Dominion of Canada. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. Produced by Sainthill Levine and presumabley woven by WCWM.
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
- 2002 (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: 4126
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5126
Thread count
DR/16 DG80 K64 LO8 K12 LB12 K8 T72 DR24 K8 DR16 K4 LB/8
One full sett is 640 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #346488 #346488 | oklch(48.6% 0.078 243.0) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| DG | #004C00 #004C00 | oklch(36.1% 0.123 142.5) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
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/s13/dr4dg20k16lo2k3lb3k2t18dr6k2dr4k1lb2x4dg1405139-t1903246/