Nova Scotia Int. Tattoo (Corporate)
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 BBBKGRY.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7476
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 2006 — Nova Scotia Int. Tattoo (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
The tartan is based on the Black Watch Tartan - a reflection of the close ties between the Tattoo and The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada. Vast numbers of the Tattoo team past and present are former members of the regiment. The Tattoo's Pipes & Drums were formed under the auspices of the Black Watch Association. The three services are represented in the Tartan, with Dark Blue for the Navy, Red for the Army and Light Blue for the Air Force. The Red also symbolises the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Canada itself. The province of Nova Scotia is represented by a wide golden thread, supported on either side by the Canadian red and further represented by the light blue of 'Canada's Seacoast' the province's current tourism slogan. Lochcarron sample. "Established in 1979, the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo is a Military and civilian extravaganza featuring over 2000 International and Canadian performers. It is the world's largest annual indoor show and is presented annually at the Halifax Metro Centre, drawing an audience of over 60,000 people. It is presented by The Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo Society with support from the Province of Nova Scotia, the Canadian Forces, the RCMP, the Halifax Regional Municipality and the Corporate Community. - undated — Nova Scotia International Tatoo (register-of-tartans, record)
The tartan is based on the Black Watch Tartan - a reflection of the close ties between the Tattoo and The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada. Vast numbers of the Tattoo team past and present are former members of the regiment. The Tattoo's Pipes & Drums were formed under the auspices of the Black Watch Association. The three services are represented in the Tartan, with Dark Blue for the Navy, Red for the Army and Light Blue for the Air Force. The Red also symbolises the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Canada itself. The province of Nova Scotia is represented by a wide golden thread, supported on either side by the Canadian red and further represented by the light blue of 'Canada's Seacoast' the province's current tourism slogan. Lochcarron sample. "Established in 1979, the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo is a Military and civilian extravaganza featuring over 2000 International and Canadian performers. It is the world's largest annual indoor show and is presented annually at the Halifax Metro Centre, drawing an audience of over 60,000 people. It is presented by The Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo Society with support from the Province of Nova Scotia, the Canadian Forces, the RCMP, the Halifax Regional Municipality and the Corporate Community.
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
- 2006 (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: 5518
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7476
Thread count
LY/6 R2 DG48 K24 DB42 B4 DB/6
One full sett is 252 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| B | #466CC8 #466CC8 | oklch(55.1% 0.149 265.0) |
| DB | #000054 #000054 | oklch(20.2% 0.140 264.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| K | #101010 #101010 | oklch(17.3% 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.
ΔTartan
Threads
Variant
Sett
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252
196
146
146
328
262
364
230
304
204
304
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/s7/db3b2db21k12dg24r1ly3x2db0806265-k0700000/