Saint Joseph de Sorel (District)
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 WRGYGBGWWWWWWW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2633
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- October 1995 — Saint Joseph de Sorel (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. An archetypal French Canadian asymmetric design that celebrates the 125th anniversary of the founding in 1875 of Saint Joseph de Sorel, Canada - a small town (1991 pop: 2069) in Quebec on the St Lawrence at the mouth of the Richelieu River opposite Sorel. Designed by Madame Pontbriand) to celebrate the 125th Anniversy of the founding of Saint Joseph de Sorel in Quebec, Canada. - 21/10/1999 — Saint Joseph de Sorel (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Madame Pontbriand to celebrate the 125th Anniversy of the founding of Saint Joseph de Sorel in Quebec, Canada.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- October 1995 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 3638
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2633
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2633
Thread count
LB/16 W2 LB6 W2 LB6 W2 LB16 DY4 N18 G4 LY10 G4 R24 LB/28
One full sett is 240 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/lb14r12g2ly5g2n9dy2lb8w1lb3w1lb3w1lb8~x2/