Prince Edward Island (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 GGGGGGRGGGRGGGW.
Part of the Prince Edward Island 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=918
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1959 — Prince Edward Island (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Close to and once part of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island lies just north of its old 'parent' in the huge Gulf of St. Lawrence. Originally called St John's Island, its name was changed in 1798 in honour of Queen Victoria's father, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent who, at the time, was in command of the British Forces in Halifax, Nova Scotia. With its population predominantly of Scottish extraction it's not surprising that an official tartan design competition was held in 1959 which was won by Mrs Elizabeth Jean MacLean Reed of Covehead, York. The colours she chose were described as follows: "Red for the warmth and glow of the fertile soil, green for the field and tree, yellow and brown for Autumn and white for the surf or a summer snow . . . rust, green, yellow and white . . .Yes! That's our Island Tartan. July 2008 - count changed to match original as contained in CIDD. "http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/sc-cs/o6_e.cfm - 01/01/1960 — Prince Edward Island (register-of-tartans, record)
Close to and once part of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island lies just north of its old 'parent' in the huge Gulf of St. Lawrence. Originally called St John's Island, its name was changed in 1798 in honour of Queen Victoria's father, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent who, at the time, was in command of the British Forces in Halifax, Nova Scotia. With its population predominantly of Scottish extraction it's not surprising that an official tartan design competition was held in 1960 which was won by Mrs Jean Reid of Covehead, York. The colours she chose were described as follows: 'Red for the warmth and glow of the fertile soil, green for the field and tree, yellow and brown for Autumn and white for the surf or a summer snow.
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
- 1959 (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: 3388
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 918
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 918
Thread count
G/40 DY4 G8 DY4 G8 DY36 R36 DY2 Y8 DY2 R36 DY36 G36 DY2 W/8
One full sett is 484 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| 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/s15/g20dy2g4dy2g4dy18r18dy1y4dy1r18dy18g18dy1w4~x2/