Maine Dirigo
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 BWGRGBGBWBWRG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2787
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/04/2000 — Maine Dirigo (register-of-tartans, record)
'Dirigo' (I lead) is the motto of the State of Maine. An adaptation of the original Maine Tartan (designed in 1964 by Sol Gilis of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia) developed by the Saint Andrews Society of Maine. The azure is for the State's skies, the royal blue for the lakes and seas; the green for the forests and farms and the red for the bloodline of the State's people. - 2001 — Maine Dirigo (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Due to "copyright issues" surrounding the Maine tartan, in 2001 the St. Andrew's Society of Maine decided to create a new tartan for the state, which they call the Maine Dirigo tartan Dirigo is the state motto, and means "I lead." They contacted state officials, who after research, could find no record of the original Maine tartan ever having been officially adopted. So a move was put forward to have the new Maine Dirigo tartan adopted as the official tartan of the state. The STA was subsequently led to believe that it was "adopted as the state tartan on 15th January 2001 in State House, Augusta, Maine." However, further research in 2007 showed that this was incorrect and although it may have been submitted on that date, a decision was not formally made until February 13 of that year, and that decision was "Ought Not to Pass." We thus have the situation where there are two contenders for the position of Maine Tartan and neither have been approved by the state legislators. The State of Maine tartan copyright holders are insistent that theirs is official and it does appear on some websites as one of the State's many official symbols . . . but the facts now suggest otherwise. 'Use and wont' may well decide in favour of the original State of Maine contender at #502.
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
- 01/04/2000 (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: 2787
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3068
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2866
Thread count
DB/16 LB4 G16 R8 G56 DB8 G4 DB4 LB4 DB4 LB52 R4 G/4
One full sett is 348 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) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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/s13/db4lb1g4r2g14db2g1db1lb1db1lb13r1g1~x4/