Johnson, J.M.
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 RGKYKWKYRKRKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1896
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1967 — Johnson, J.M. (register-of-tartans, record)
One of the Fathers of the Confederation. Born Liverpool 1818. Died Quebec 1868. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. - 1967 — Johnson, J.M. (Commemorative) (tartans-authority, record)
One of the Fathers of the Confederation. Born Liverpool 1818. Died Quebec 1868. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. The designer obviously took a short cut with Nos 4796, 1482, 5286 & 5126 in this series since they are all based on the Royal Stewart and have the same threadcount but vary in one colour or shade of colour - pointed out by John Fitzpatrick in his July 2008 review of Canadian tartans.
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
- 1967 (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: 1896
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5286
Thread count
R/16 DG80 K64 LY8 K12 W12 K8 LY72 R24 K8 R16 K4 W/8
One full sett is 640 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| 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/r4dg20k16ly2k3w3k2ly18r6k2r4k1w2~x4/