Prince Edward Island (Commemorative)

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 KGYGYGYGYGYGYGYGKRKYKYKYKYKYKYKYKRYR.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 36 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7709

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 16th Feb. 1966 — Prince Edward Island (Commemorative) (tartans-authority, record)
    Asymmetric. In his thorough and painstaking 2008 review of Canadian tartans, John Fitzpatrick pointed out that a series of ten tartans from Pik Mills of Quebec City were probably their contribution to the 'Centennial of Confederation' like the 'Fathers of Confederation' series produced by WCWM/Sainthill-Levine. All ten tartans are complex asymmetric designs each with different warp and weft. The threadcounts (taken from the CIDD) remain the same but colours are changed.
  • undated — Prince Edward Island (CIDD 28100) (register-of-tartans, record)
    In his thorough and painstaking 2008 review of Canadian tartans, John Fitzpatrick pointed out that a series of ten tartans from Pik Mills of Quebec City were probably their contribution to the 'Centennial of Confederation' like the 'Fathers of Confederation' series produced by WCWM/Sainthill-Levine. All ten tartans are complex asymmetric designs each with different warp and weft. The threadcounts (taken from the CIDD) remain the same but colours are changed.
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
16th Feb. 1966 (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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  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

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

Thread count

R/50 LY16 R8 K8 LY1 K1 LY1 K1 LY1 K1 LY1 K1 LY1 K1 LY1 K1 LY20 K40 R12 K24 DG8 LY1 DG1 LY1 DG1 LY1 DG1 LY1 DG1 LY1 DG1 LY1 DG1 LY28 DG6 K/4

One full sett is 442 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DG#053819 #053819oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)
LY#DCBC32 #DCBC32oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)

Sample pattern

R/50 LY16 R8 K8 LY1 K1 LY1 K1 LY1 K1 LY1 K1 LY1 K1 LY1 K1 LY20 K40 R12 K24 DG8 LY1 DG1 LY1 DG1 LY1 DG1 LY1 DG1 LY1 DG1 LY1 DG1 LY28 DG6 K/4 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.

New Brunswick (Commemorative)Alberta (Commemorative)New Brunswick (CIDD 28101)MacIntosh (Moy Hall Plaid)Stuart/Stewart of ArdshielNew Brunswick (PIK Mills, Toronto)groundcomplexity

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