Canterbury (Fashion)
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 GKRKRKGKRKR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3265
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1999 Designed by Blair Urquhart of the House of Tartan, for Clinton John MacInnes, Timely Marketing & Promotions Ltd, PO Box 28168, Christchurch, NZ.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1999 — Canterbury (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by the House of Tartan, Alloa for the Timely Marketing & Promotions Ltd, PO Box 28168, Christchurch, NZ. In the absence of any official acceptance by Canterbury, categorised as 'Fashion' rather than 'District'. - 1999 — Canterbury New Zealand District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/2000 — Canterbury (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Blair Urquhart for the House of Tartan from design by and for Clinton McInnes of New Zealand. The design and copyright is owned by CJ and PJ McInnes (for Timely Marketing & Promotions Ltd) PO Box 28168, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 1999 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5326
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3265
Thread count
R/4 K40 R10 K8 DG8 K8 R10 K4 R28 K4 Y/4
One full sett is 248 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| 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/s11/r2k20r5k4dg4k4r5k2r14k2y2~x2/