St. John New Brunswick (District)

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 GRYRWGWGWRYGY.

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

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10132

Provenance

Earliest known date: 1st Jan. 2010 The Saint John New Brunswick tartan was commissioned by Claudia MacLean of ScotDance New Brunswick as a legacy gift to the City of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, following the Highland Games held there in 2006. This tartan can only be woven with the permission of the City of St John New Brunswick.

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 1st Jan. 2010 — St. John New Brunswick (District) (tartans-authority, record)
    The Saint John New Brunswick tartan was commissioned by Claudia MacLean of ScotDance New Brunswick as a legacy gift to the City of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, following the Highland Games held there in 2006. This tartan can only be woven with the permission of the City of St John New Brunswick.
  • undated — St. John New Brunswick District Tartan (house-of-tartan, 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
1st Jan. 2010 (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 (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  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

G/2 R4 LG24 R30 W30 G6 W2 G6 W30 R30 LG6 DY24 LG/2

One full sett is 388 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
LG#82D67A #82D67Aoklch(80.1% 0.150 142.2)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
DY#3A2B0D #3A2B0Doklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0)

Sample pattern

G/2 R4 LG24 R30 W30 G6 W2 G6 W30 R30 LG6 DY24 LG/2 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 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.

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