In pattern BWYR.

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 4 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2229

Attestations

This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.

• 01/01/1994 — Louisburg (register-of-tartans, record)
• 1994 — Louisburg (District) (tartans-authority, record)

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

• Scottish Register of Tartans: 2229
• Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5500

Thread count

N/44 Y20 W6 DB/16

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

Sample pattern

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. Louisburg Canadian District Tartan Tartan Number: 5500. Earliest known date: 1994 Louisburg is a tiny seaside town in Nova Scotia about 20 miles southeast of Sydney and site of the 1758 Battle of Louisburgh. It was designed by Edith MacIntyre of Louisbourg with the assistance of Jean Kyte and Jean composed the following poem about the colours. CIDD count slightly different - RB/20 W8 Y20 LN/34 (John Fitzpatrick's July 2008 review of Canadian tartans). Gray fog and sea and rocks. The yellow sun. white spindrift on the harbour restless beneath an azure sky. Curent owners (2008): The Louisbourg Heritage Society P.O. Box 396 Louisbourg, B0A 1M0 Nova Scotia, Canada See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.04
2. MacLeod of Argentina — ΔT 1.20
3. MacLeod, of Argentina — ΔT 1.24
4. Oban Grey (Fashion) — ΔT 1.27
5. City of London (Corporate) — ΔT 1.28
6. Burberry (Genuine) — ΔT 1.31
7. MacRae of Conchra — ΔT 1.35
8. Delroeux, John Michael (Personal) — ΔT 1.35
9. City of London — ΔT 1.37
10. Buckeye — ΔT 1.38

Neighbour map

Every grey dot is one of 14299 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.

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