Contrecoeur

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 BBWBGGGGYBYGGGG.

Part of the Contrecoeur tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=748

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/01/1992 — Contrecoeur (register-of-tartans, record)
    Small township in southern Quebec. 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 (District) (tartans-authority, record)
    Small township in southern Quebec. 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

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

Y/20 DY2 G4 Y4 LR4 DR2 LR4 Y4 G4 DY2 Y20 DR14 W6 DR26 DB/10

One full sett is 222 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
DR#55120C #55120Coklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
DY#3A2B0D #3A2B0Doklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0)
LR#FF9C97 #FF9C97oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

Y/20 DY2 G4 Y4 LR4 DR2 LR4 Y4 G4 DY2 Y20 DR14 W6 DR26 DB/10 tartan

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.

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