Sir George Etienne-Cartier Canada Tartan
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 BKBRBKGGGR.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=277
Provenance
Earliest known date: c. 1983 Sir George Etienne-Cartier, 1814 - 1873. was one of the primary architects of the Canadian Confederation and co-premier with John A MacDonald. Another record (276) in STS list shows Mrs Elspie Gillespie 1978 as source.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- c. 1983 — Sir George Etienne-Cartier Canada Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/2002 — Etienne-Carter, Sir George (register-of-tartans, record)
One of the Fathers of the Canadian Federation. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Johnston Collection. "Canadian Founders", authentic clan tartans representing Canada's Founders, woven by West Coast Wollen Mills. Vancouver. Produced by Sainthill-Levine & Co. - pre 2002 — Carter, Sir George-Etienne (Commem) (tartans-authority, record)
One of the Fathers of the Canadian Federation and co-premier with John A MacDonald. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. - undated — Sir George, Etienne-Cartier (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- c. 1983 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 1134
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 277
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 277
Thread count
R/8 G12 Y6 G24 K28 DB10 R40 DB10 K8 DB/4
One full sett is 288 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s10/r4g6y3g12k14db5r20db5k4db2~x2/