New Brunswick or Beaverbrook District 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 WGWGGGGGGGWGWGWGRBRGRBRWGBGRGWGWGWGGGGGGGWGW.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 44 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=663
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1959 The entry in the Lyon Court Books reads, "This tartan is assymetrical. The sett reading along the warp from the left may be divided into four equal sections of 190 threads. The first is symetrical, The second is assymetrical, The third is the same as the first, The fourth is the same as the second but in reverse" In reality the pattern is symetrical and has 380 threads in half sett as careful reading of Lord Lyons description reveals. The design was commissioned by Lord Beaverbrook and adopted by the Province.
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
- 1959 (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
LB/2 Y2 LB2 DG2 G4 DG4 G4 DG4 G4 DG2 LB2 Y2 LB2 Y2 LB2 DG36 R32 Y2 N4 Y6 LB8 R16 DR18 R6 Y4 R18 DR10 R12 DG36 LB2 Y2 LB2 Y2 LB2 DG2 G4 DG4 G4 DG4 G4 DG2 LB2 Y2 LB/2
One full sett is 572 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s44/lb1y1lb1dg1g2dg2g2dg2g2dg1lb1y1lb1y1lb1dg18r16y1n2y3lb4r8dr9r3y2r9dr5r6dg18lb1y1lb1y1lb1dg1g2dg2g2dg2g2dg1lb1y1lb1~x2/