Nova Scotia #2
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 BGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGBGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGBG.
Part of the Nova Scotia tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 36 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3201
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
- 2017-01-06 (dataset default)
- 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: 3201
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1927
Thread count
DB/50 DG4 G6 DY28 G1 DY1 G1 DY1 G1 DY1 G1 DY1 G1 DY1 G1 DY1 G8 DG24 DB12 DG4 DY20 DG1 DY1 DG1 DY1 DG1 DY1 DG1 DY1 DG1 DY1 DG1 DY1 DG8 DB8 DY/16
One full sett is 358 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
Sample pattern
ID: /variants/s36/db50dg4g6dy28g1dy1g1dy1g1dy1g1dy1g1dy1g1dy1g8dg24db12dg4dy20dg1dy1dg1dy1dg1dy1dg1dy1dg1dy1dg1dy1dg8db8dy16/