Guelph, City Of
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 GKGBGKBY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1558
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/04/1993 — Guelph, City Of (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by J.A. McIntyre and registered with the Scottish Tartans Society in July, 1993. Swatch in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. Tartan fully approved by the Council of the City of Guelph the colours of which are to be found in the city's coat of arms. Tartan Committee of City of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. - 1993 — Guelph, City Of (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by J.A. McIntyre and registered with the STS in July, 1993. The colours are from the city's official arms and crest and the design is based on the MacRae tartan in honour of Colonel John McRae, a soldier, poet, physician and a native of Guelph, most famous for having written "In Flanders Field." "On 2 May, 1915, in the second week of fighting during the Second Battle of Ypres Lieutenant Alexis Helmer was killed by a German artillery shell. He was a friend of the Canadian military doctor Major John McCrae. It is believed that John began the draft for his famous poem 'In Flanders Fields' that evening." Was originally woven by Fraser & Kirkbright of Vancouver. Swatch in STA's Johnston Collection
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
- 01/04/1993 (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: 1558
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2186
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2186
Thread count
G/48 K4 G8 DR4 G8 K40 DB40 LO/4
One full sett is 260 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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/g12k1g2dr1g2k10db10lo1~x4/