Le Cercle des Femmes (Corporate)
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 KGWBGGKGBKWBGYKWK.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 17 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3136
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 2002 — Le Cercle des Femmes (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. Designed by Madame Suzanne Allard-Ouellette for the organisation of ladies groups in Quebec, the oldest in North America. Name easily confused with Les Cercles de Fermieres by the same designer. The gre threadocunts are suspicious. Confusion arises between this name and Les Cercles de Fermieres (#2136) by the same designer. The two designs share great similarities. - undated — Les Cercles de Femme (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Madame Suzanne Allard-Ouellette for the organisation of ladies groups in Quebec, the oldest in North America. Name easily confused with Les Cercles de Fermieres by the same designer. Confusion arises between this name and Les Cercles de Fermieres (#2136, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) by the same designer. The two designs share great similarities.
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
- pre 2002 (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: 5233
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3136
Thread count
K/24 G32 LB4 DO24 G4 Y20 K8 Y16 N54 K60 LB12 N54 G40 LO8 K4 LB8 K/8
One full sett is 728 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| DO | #412714 #412714 | oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7) |
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/s17/k12g16lb2do12g2y10k4y8n27k30lb6n27g20lo4k2lb4k4~x2/