Quebec (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 KRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRKWKBKBKBKBKBKBKBKWBW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 36 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1966
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 16th Feb. 1966 — Quebec (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) remained the same but the colours were changed. - 01/01/2002 — Quebec Centennial (register-of-tartans, record)
Said to be Pik Mills, Toronto.
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
- 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: 3422
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1966
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1966
Thread count
W/50 DB16 W8 K8 DB1 K1 DB1 K1 DB1 K1 DB1 K1 DB1 K1 DB1 K1 DB20 K40 W12 K24 R8 DB1 R1 DB1 R1 DB1 R1 DB1 R1 DB1 R1 DB1 R1 DB28 R6 K/4
One full sett is 442 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/w50db16w8k8db1k1db1k1db1k1db1k1db1k1db1k1db20k40w12k24r8db1r1db1r1db1r1db1r1db1r1db1r1db28r6k4/