Nova Scotia

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 BGBGBGGRBGGGGGRBGG.

Sourced from weddslist. It is a 18 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.weddslist.com/cgi-bin/tartans/pg.pl?source=sts

Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
Weddslist
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/weddslist/data.csv
data date
2016-11-17 (dataset default)
licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Weddslist
    the living privately compiled reference
  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

Thread count

G/20 DG4 DB4 O28 DG4 G4 DG4 G4 DG4 DB50 O16 G8 DG8 DB6 DG2 DB6 DG2 DB/8

One full sett is 336 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
DG#053819 #053819oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
O#A65C11 #A65C11oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3)

Sample pattern

G/20 DG4 DB4 O28 DG4 G4 DG4 G4 DG4 DB50 O16 G8 DG8 DB6 DG2 DB6 DG2 DB/8 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.

Cochrane HuntingNova ScotiaCochrane HuntingUnidentified Lindley #2Norwich No.023Cumming and GlenorchyCumming Glenorchy (Htg) Clan TartanMacIntyre of LittleportGlenorchyMacIntyre, or Perthshiregroundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s18/g10dg2db2o14dg2g2dg2g2dg2db25o8g4dg4db3dg1db3dg1db4~x2/

© 2022 - 2026 · Tartan Dictionary · Powered by Hugo ·