Niagara Region
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 RGRKRBKBKWKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3133
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/02/2007 — Niagara Region (register-of-tartans, record)
Approved by the Niagara Regional Police chief, the Regional Municipality of Niagara and the Niagara Regional Arts, Culture and Heritage Committee. Colours: dark blue represents lakes Ontario and Erie; light blue for the Niagara River and the Welland Canal; white is the mist rising from the Falls; green symbolizes Niagara's fertile agriculture and parks; and red is significant of the rich military history of the Niagara Region. - February 2007 — Niagara Region (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Press article 15.5.07: "The new tartan was designed by the band's 47 members and it was approved by the Niagara Regional Police chief as well as the Regional Municipality of Niagara and the Niagara Regional Arts, Culture and Heritage Committee. The colours in the new tartan are dark blue which represents lakes Ontario and Erie; light blue for the Niagara River and the Welland Canal; white is the mist rising from the Falls; green symbolizes Niagara's fertile agriculture and parks; and red is significant of the rich military history of the Niagara Region. " Sample from Lochcarron.
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
- 01/02/2007 (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: 3133
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7110
Thread count
W/8 K4 W4 K56 DT8 K4 DT4 R2 K26 R2 G26 R/4
One full sett is 284 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #00002C #00002C | oklch(13.2% 0.092 264.1) |
| DT | #1C4C60 #1C4C60 | oklch(39.3% 0.061 228.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 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 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/s12/w4k2w2k28dt4k2dt2r1k13r1g13r2x2k0504259-dt1602222/