Caribou (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 WBKWKBBBKWKGWGKWKBW.
Part of the Caribou tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 19 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2056
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1982 Proposed by the Caribou Islands District Fire Hall (Ladies Auxilary). Among the suggestions for the symbolic meaning of the colours it says, "Red for our sunsets, our lobsters, and our Fire Trucks". Caribou is in Pictou County, Nova Scotia.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1982 — Caribou (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Created for the unlikely sounding Caribou Islands District Fire Hall (Ladies' Auxiliary)! The Caribou Islands lie north of Nova Scotia and are part of Pictou County. ''Red for our sunsets, our lobsters, and our Fire Trucks. White is for the white boats and the islands' little white church. Grey is for the herring and the seagulls. - 1982 — Caribou District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/1990 — Caribou (register-of-tartans, record)
Created for the unlikely sounding Caribou Islands District Fire Hall (Ladies' Auxiliary). The Caribou Islands lie north of Nova Scotia and are part of Pictou County. Among the suggestions for the symbolic meaning of the colours it says, ''Red for our sunsets, our lobsters, and our Fire Trucks."
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
- 1982 (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: 561
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2056
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2056
Thread count
W/4 DR16 K4 LB12 K4 N16 DB4 N16 K4 LB12 K4 G16 LB4 G16 K4 LB12 K4 DR16 W/4
One full sett is 336 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s19/w1dr4k1lb3k1n4db1n4k1lb3k1g4lb1g4k1lb3k1dr4w1~x4/