Ensign of Ontario (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 GGGGYGGGGGGKRKG.
Part of the Ensign of Ontario tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2032
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1965 — Ensign of Ontario (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Elsie Gillespie has taken her colours from the Ontario Coat of Arms: Yellow is from the golden maple leaves; red from St George's cross; black and brown from the bear, moose and deer. Woven by Rotex Ltd. Was incorrectly regarded as Ontario's official tartan for a while. - 01/01/1968 — Ensign of Ontario (register-of-tartans, record)
The Ensign tartan owes its inspiration to the Provincial Coat of Arms which was granted to the province by Royal Warrant of Queen Victoria in 1868. The yellow is taken from the three golden maple leaves of the lower shield and the red from the cross of St George on the upper. The black and brown come from the bear, the moose and the deer. There is also a District tartan called Northern Ontario. Woven by Rotex Ltd. Was incorrectly regarded as Ontario's official tartan for a while.
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
- 1965 (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 Register of Tartans: 1114
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2032
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2032
Thread count
DG/42 K2 R8 K2 DY42 DG6 DY6 DG6 DY42 DG6 LY8 DG42 DY6 DG6 DY/6
One full sett is 412 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s15/dg21k1r4k1dy21dg3dy3dg3dy21dg3ly4dg21dy3dg3dy3~x2/