Nova Scotia (Province)
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 RGGGGGGBW.
Part of the Nova Scotia tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3202
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1953 — Nova Scotia (Province) (register-of-tartans, record)
The Atlantic province of Nova Scotia, New Scotland, was first mentioned in 1621 on a land charter. This is the oldest Provincial tartan in Canada and was designed in 1953 almost by accident. Mrs Bessie Murray was President of the Halifax Weavers' Guild and designed a trade display on sheep rearing. In it, a shepherd wore a tartan and to avoid showing favouritism she designed a completely new one that proved to be so popular that in 1963 it was adopted as the official provincial tartan. The colours represent the blue of the sea and sky; the dark and light greens of the evergreens and deciduous trees; the white of the rocks and coastline surf; the gold of Nova Scotia's Royal Charter and the red from the lion rampant on the Province's crest. From a specimen supplied by Tartan House Ltd, Halifax, NS at the request of the Dept of Trade and Industry Halifax, NS. Recorded in Lord Lyon Book - LCB 5 on 1st March 1956. Lyon count: R2 Y4 DG16 LG8 DG4 LG4 DG4 B40 W4. - Apr. 1954 — Nova Scotia (District) (tartans-authority, record)
The Atlantic province of Nova Scotia - New Scotland - was first mentioned in 1621 on a land charter. This is the oldest Provincial tartan in Canada and was designed in 1953 almost by accident. Mrs Bessie Murray was President of the Halifax Weavers' Guild and designed a trade display on sheep rearing. In it, a shepherd wore a tartan and to avoid showing favouritism she designed a completely new one that proved to be so popular that in 1963 it was adopted as the official provincial tartan. The colours represent the blue of the sea and sky; the dark and light greens of the evergreens and deciduous trees; the white of the rocks and coastline surf; the gold of Nova Scotia's Royal Charter and the red from the lion rampant on the Province's crest. From a specimen supplied by Tartan House Ltd, Halifax, NS at the request of the Dept of Trade and Industry Halifax, NS. Recorded in Lord Lyon Book - LCB 5 on 1st March 1956. Lyon count: R2 Y4 DG16 LG8 DG4 LG4 DG4 B40 W4. See also Nova Scotia Dress at 660 which was also designed by Bessie Murray.
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
- 1953 (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: 3202
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1713
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1713
Thread count
W/4 DB40 DG4 G4 DG4 G8 DG16 Y4 R/2
One full sett is 166 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #006818 #006818 | oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0) |
| G | #289C18 #289C18 | oklch(60.6% 0.191 141.6) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s9/w2db20dg2g2dg2g4dg8y2r1x2dg1806142-g2408144/