Contrecoeur Dress
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 RWBGWGBWRWGGGBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=749
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1992 — Contrecoeur Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
Asymmetric. Small township in southern Quebec. Asymmetric tartan designed by French Canadian Madeleine Asselin. Red is for the courage of the town's founders, yellow is for the town's prestigious past and 'our holiday centres', blue is for the Saint-Laurent river which also links the twon with the native country of the funder, Antoine-Pecaudt, white is for the pride and determination of the people, pine green is for giant pines, the fecund soil, the islands of Contrecoeur and the duck shooting. Steel grey is for the industrial development and brown is for the traditional footwear indsutry established in 1883. The above is a precis of an article written by the designer and translated July 2008 by John Forsyth of Vancouver Island. - 1992 — Contrecoeur Dress (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. Small township in southern Quebec. Asymmetric tartan designed by French Canadian Madeleine Asselin. Red is for the courage of the town's founders, yellow is for the town's prestigious past and 'our holiday centres', blue is for the Saint-Laurent river which also links the twon with the native country of the funder, Antoine-Pecaudt, white is for the pride and determination of the people, pine green is for giant pines, the fecund soil, the islands of Contrecoeur and the duck shooting. Steel grey is for the industrial development and brown is for the traditional footwear indsutry established in 1883. The above is a precis of an article written by the designer and translated Julky 2008 by John Forsyth of Vancouver Island.
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
- 1992 (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: 749
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2295
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2295
Thread count
W/8 N8 G8 DY4 Y40 W28 R12 W52 DB20 Y40 W4 G8 N8 W8 R/4
One full sett is 492 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) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s15/w2n2g2dy1y10w7r3w13db5y10w1g2n2w2r1~x4/