Pictou County
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 BGGBWRWB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3334
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/02/2007 — Pictou County (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Kirsty Anderson of the House of Edgar for Whigmaleeries of Pictou, Nova Scotia. - Feb.2007 — Pictou County (District) (tartans-authority, record)
"Produced by the House of Edgar to the design brief from Frances Buchan (late of Whigmaleeries of Pictou, Nova Scotia.). Copyright belongs to Frances Buchan (CDD 1051521) Green for the forests and land, blue for the ocean, gold for the beaches, red for the industries, especially the lobster, white for the lighthouses and purple for the Scots. Registered 4th September 2007 with the Canadian Copyright Database (CDD): 1051521
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
- 01/02/2007 (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: 3334
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7113
Thread count
DB/46 W2 R6 W2 DB24 Y18 G80 DP/6
One full sett is 316 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| 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/s8/db23w1r3w1db12y9g40dp3~x2/