Red Deer, 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 GBGKGKWR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3477
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1996 — Red Deer, City of (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Red Deer Highland Games in this Alberta township. Although starting out life as a commemorative tartan, by now it will probably be regarded as a District tartan. - 1996 — Red Deer, City of (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Red Deer Highland Games in this Alberta township. Although starting out life as a commemorative tartan, by now it will probably be regarded as a District tartan. City Council passed a resolution on November 18th 1996 naming the tartan and the colours represent the following: green for the parks, red for the red deer, white for the snow, blue for the sky and rivers, black for the oil and soil and gold for the golden anniversary and the grain.
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
- 1996 (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: 3477
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5430
Thread count
G/32 DB8 G16 K4 Y2 K12 W16 R/20
One full sett is 168 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/g16db4g8k2y1k6w8r10~x2/