Manitoba Province
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 BGGGWGWGWGGGBY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2807
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1961 — Manitoba Province (register-of-tartans, record)
Another of Canada's prairies provinces, Manitoba is probably from a Cree name meaning 'the place where the spirit (manitou) speaks.' The designer of this tartan was Hugh Kirkwood Rankine who was born in Winnipeg of Scottish parents. It's said that during a leave in Scotland during World War II, he became interested in tartan and on his return learned how to weave and in time produced this 'history in cloth' which was given Royal Assent in 1962. The red squares represent the Red River Settlement; the green squares signify the natural resources of the province; the azure blue squares represent Lord Selkirk, the founder of the Red River Settlement and the dark green lines are for Manitoba's multi cultural population. In his 'District Tartans' book, Gordon Teal states that sometimes the tartan is depicted with the dark green as red. This, he said, is an example of the errors that can be caused by the Lord Lyon's use of heraldic colours to describe tartans.In heraldry G, gules, is red, whereas G in conventional tartan terminology is green. Recorded in Lyon Court Book No 14. 5th April 1962. Lyon count: Y4 DeepRed 12 LG2 G4 LG24 Az2 LG2 Az4. Tartan Society has additional version (#145, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) which uses light green in place of green but this not included in this database. - 1961 — Manitoba Province (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Another of Canada's prairies provinces, Manitoba is probably from a Cree name meaning "the place where the spirit (manitou) speaks." The designer of this tartan was Hugh Kirkwood Rankine who was born in Winnipeg of Scottish parents. It's said that during a leave in Scotland during World War II, he became interested in tartan and on his return learned how to weave and in time produced this 'history in cloth' which was given Royal Assent in 1962. The red squares represent the Red River Settlement; the green squares signify the natural resources of the province; the azure blue squares represent Lord Selkirk, the founder of the Red River Settlement and the dark green lines are for Manitoba's multi cultural population. In his 'District Tartans' book, Gordon Teal states that sometimes the tartan is depicted with the dark green as red. This, he said, is an example of the errors that can be caused by the Lord Lyon's use of heraldic colours to describe tartans. In heraldry G, gules, is red, whereas G in conventional tartan terminology is green. Recorded in Lyon Court Book No 14. 5th April 1962. Lyon count: Y4 DeepRed 12 LG2 G4 LG24 Az2 LG2 Az4 which exactly matches the CIDD count. The count shown here has been more-or-less tripled. Tartan Society has additional version (#145) which uses light green in place of green but this is not included in this database.
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
- 1961 (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: 2807
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 144
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 144
Thread count
DR/48 G4 DG12 G80 LB4 G4 LB12 G4 LB4 G80 DG12 G4 DR48 LY/12
One full sett is 596 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
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/s14/dr12g1dg3g20lb1g1lb3g1lb1g20dg3g1dr12ly3~x4/