Palmer, Edward
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 RGKGKWKWRKRKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3288
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Palmer, Edward (register-of-tartans, record)
1809 - 1889. Opponent of the Confederation. Premier of Prince Edward Island. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. From the range of tartans named after the 'Fathers of the Confederation'. Thought to have been woven by West Coast Woollen Mills for Saithill Levine. Thread count halved to show sett. - pre 2002 — Palmer, Edward (Commemorative) (tartans-authority, record)
1809 - 1889. Opponent of the Confederation.Premier of Prince Edward Island. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. From the range of tartans named after the 'Fathers of the Confederation' Thought to have been woven by West Coast Woollen Mills for Saithill Levine. Thread count halved to show sett. The designer obviously took a short cut with Nos 4796, 1482, 5286 & 5126 in this series since they are all based on the Royal Stewart and have the same threadcount but vary in one colour or shade of colour - pointed out by John Fitzpatrick in his July 2008 review of Canadian tartans.
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: 3288
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4796
Thread count
R/8 G40 K32 Y4 K6 W6 K4 W36 R12 K4 R8 K2 W/4
One full sett is 320 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| 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/s13/r4g20k16y2k3w3k2w18r6k2r4k1w2~x2/