Louisburg
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 BGWB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 4 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2229
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1994 — Louisburg (register-of-tartans, record)
Louisburg is a tiny seaside town in Nova Scotia about 20 miles southeast of Sydney and site of the 1758 Battle of Louisburgh. It was designed by Edith MacIntyre of Louisbourg with the assistance of Jean Kyte and Jean composed the following poem about the colours. Gray fog and sea and rocks. The yellow sun. white spindrift on the harbour restless beneath an azure sky. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. - 1994 — Louisburg (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Louisburg is a tiny seaside town in Nova Scotia about 20 miles southeast of Sydney and site of the 1758 Battle of Louisburgh. It was designed by Edith MacIntyre of Louisbourg with the assistance of Jean Kyte and Jean composed the following poem about the colours. CIDD count slightly different - RB/20 W8 Y20 LN/34 (John Fitzpatrick's July 2008 review of Canadian tartans). Gray fog and sea and rocks. The yellow sun. white spindrift on the harbour restless beneath an azure sky. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. Curent owners (2008): The Louisbourg Heritage Society P.O. Box 396 Louisbourg, B0A 1M0 Nova Scotia, Canada
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
- 1994 (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: 2229
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5500
Thread count
N/44 Y20 W6 DB/16
One full sett is 112 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s4/n22y10w3db8~x2/