Alberta
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 BGKBKBKBKBKBKBKBKGKGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGKG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 36 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=38
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2003 From a Canadian pattern book.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
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
- 1984 (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: 38
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2974
Thread count
G/100 K8 DY12 DB56 DY2 DB2 DY2 DB2 DY2 DB2 DY2 DB2 DY2 DB2 DY2 DB2 DY16 K48 G24 K8 DB40 K2 DB2 K2 DB2 K2 DB2 K2 DB2 K2 DB2 K2 DB2 K16 G16 DB/32
One full sett is 716 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s36/g50k4dy6db28dy1db1dy1db1dy1db1dy1db1dy1db1dy1db1dy8k24g12k4db20k1db1k1db1k1db1k1db1k1db1k1db1k8g8db16~x2/