Calgary
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 RKBWBBBYKBW.
Part of the Calgary tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=477
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Calgary (register-of-tartans, record)
This design is the winning entry from a competition organised by the St Andrew-Caledonian Society of Calgary. The design was based on Wilson's No. 152. Wilsons of Bannockburn a weaving firm founded c1770 near Stirling. The Pattern books are in the National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh. Colours: red is associated with many of Calgary's teams, the Calgary Stampede and its Stampede Showband; blue represents the Bow and Elbow rivers on which Calgary was founded; yellow symbolises the prairie wheatfields to the east; grey represents the Rocky Mountains to the west; black is for the gas and oil industry; and white represents Calgary's pride in and symbolism of the white stetson and the White Hatter Awards. The tartan is regardsd as an official and registered symbol of the City of Calgary that any person can wear any way they choose, whenever and wherever they like. The Society is the registered owner of the Calgary tartan and is responsible for its management and promotion. The tartan was launched on 3 August 2003 on Prince's Island during the Heritage Day Opening Ceremonies. The winning designer, Donna Buie of Cochrane AB, was presented with a copy of the registration, a sash and tie in the new tartan, and a cheque for $1,000. - 2002 — Calgary (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Based mainly on Wilson's 152 this is the winning entry from a competition organised by the The St. Andrew-Caledonian Society of Calgary. The designer's notes say: "Red is associated with many of Calgary's teams, the Calgary Stampede and its Stampede Showband. Calgary was founded on the banks of the Bow and Elbow rivers which are represented by blue. Yellow symbolises the prairie wheatfields to the east and grey, the Rocky Mountains to the west. Black is for the gas and oil industry and white represents Calgary's pride in and symbolism of the white stetson and the White Hatter Awards. Further notes from the St Andrew-Caledonian Society of Calgary website: It is an official and registered symbol of the City of Calgary that any person can wear any way they choose, whenever they like and where ever they like. The Society is the registered owner of the Calgary tartan and is responsible for its management and promotion and has freely made this presentation to the City of Calgary . The official unveiling was 3 August 2003 on Prince's Island during the Heritage Day Opening Ceremonies where the winning designer, Donna Buie of Cochrane AB, was presented a copy of the registration, a sash and tie in the new tartan, and a cheque for $1,000. The tartan should be available in the Fall of 2002 at the Bay Downtown, the Highland Scottish Gift Shop beside Canada Olympic Park and the Scottish Shoppe on 4th Street SW. The Society will also accept requests from charitable or non-profit societies who wish to use the tartan for consideration in the future.
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
- 2002 (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: 477
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5728
Thread count
R/80 K10 DR8 W4 DR16 N4 DB6 LY2 K60 DR6 W/2
One full sett is 314 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
ID: /variants/s11/r40k5dr4w2dr8n2db3ly1k30dr3w1~x2/