Nova Scotia (Commemorative)
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 BYBGYGYGYGYGYGYGYGBGGYGYGYGYGYGYGYGG.
Part of the Nova Scotia tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 36 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7707
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 16th Feb. 1966 — Nova Scotia (Commemorative) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. This replaces #1912 & #1927. In his thorough and painstaking 2008 review of Canadian tartans, John Fitzpatrick pointed out that a series of ten tartans from Pik Mills of Quebec City were probably their contribution to the 'Centennial of Confederation' like the 'Fathers of Confederation' series produced by WCWM/Sainthill-Levine. All ten tartans are complex asymmetric designs each with different warp and weft. The threadcounts (taken from the CIDD) remain the same but colours are changed. JF notes that the yellow is closer to brown in the graphic that he'd seen. - undated — Nova Scotia (CIDD 20899) (register-of-tartans, record)
This replaces #1912 and #1927 (original Scottish Tartans Authority refs) In his thorough and painstaking 2008 review of Canadian tartans, John Fitzpatrick pointed out that a series of ten tartans from Pik Mills of Quebec City were probably their contribution to the 'Centennial of Confederation' like the 'Fathers of Confederation' series produced by WCWM/Sainthill-Levine. All ten tartans are complex asymmetric designs each with different warp and weft. The threadcounts (taken from the CIDD) remain the same but colours are changed. JF notes that the yellow is closer to brown in the graphic that he'd seen.
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
- 16th Feb. 1966 (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: 5699
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7707
Thread count
DB/50 LY16 DB8 DG8 LY1 DG1 LY1 DG1 LY1 DG1 LY1 DG1 LY1 DG1 LY1 DG1 LY20 DG40 DB12 DG24 G8 LY1 G1 LY1 G1 LY1 G1 LY1 G1 LY1 G1 LY1 G1 LY28 G6 DG/4
One full sett is 442 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.49 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/s36/db50ly16db8dg8ly1dg1ly1dg1ly1dg1ly1dg1ly1dg1ly1dg1ly20dg40db12dg24g8ly1g1ly1g1ly1g1ly1g1ly1g1ly1g1ly28g6dg4/