New Brunswick variation Canadian Tartan
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 GWGGGGGGGWGWGRGBGWRGRGRGRGWGWGGGGGGGWG.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 38 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1880
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2003 Sent in by Tweedmill for information.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- pre 2003 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
Y/2 LB2 DG1 G2 DG2 G2 DG2 G2 DG2 LB2 Y2 LB2 DG28 R24 Y1 N2 Y3 LB4 R10 DY16 R4 Y2 R14 DY5 R10 DG28 LB2 Y2 LB2 DG1 G2 DG2 G2 DG2 G2 DG1 LB2 Y/2
One full sett is 388 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DG | #006818 #006818 | oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0) |
| G | #289C18 #289C18 | oklch(60.6% 0.191 141.6) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/y2lb2dg1g2dg2g2dg2g2dg2lb2y2lb2dg28r24y1n2y3lb4r10dy16r4y2r14dy5r10dg28lb2y2lb2dg1g2dg2g2dg2g2dg1lb2y2~dg1806142-g2408144/