Canadian Confederation (Commemorat)
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 BRKBKBKBKBKBKBKBKRKGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGKRWR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 38 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1964
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1965 — Canadian Confederation (Commemorat) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. Said to have been produced for Eatons of Toronto (a major national department store) and registered to Pik Mills on 26.11.1965. Its structure is very similar to the 'Fathers of the Confederation series. Updated 16th April 2009 with information received from Canadian researcher John Fitzpatrick. - 01/01/1967 — Canadian Confederation (register-of-tartans, record)
Produced for Eatons of Toronto. This matches the Scottish Tartans Society count but a note attached to the latter says: 'Re-do this sett to make 12 single thread strips where 8 exist here.' No 're-doing' has taken place yet.
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
- 1965 (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: 545
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1964
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1964
Thread count
R/48 W8 R48 K8 G12 DB52 G2 DB2 G2 DB2 G2 DB2 G2 DB2 G2 DB2 G2 DB2 G16 K48 R24 K8 DB40 K2 DB2 K2 DB2 K2 DB2 K2 DB2 K2 DB2 K2 DB2 K16 R16 DB/32
One full sett is 768 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s38/r24w4r24k4g6db26g1db1g1db1g1db1g1db1g1db1g1db1g8k24r12k4db20k1db1k1db1k1db1k1db1k1db1k1db1k8r8db16~x2/