New Brunswick (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 KRGRGRGRGRGRGRGRKYKGKGKGKGKGKGKGKYGY.

Part of the New Brunswick 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=7710

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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  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

LY/50 DG16 LY8 K8 DG1 K1 DG1 K1 DG1 K1 DG1 K1 DG1 K1 DG1 K1 DG20 K40 LY12 K24 R8 DG1 R1 DG1 R1 DG1 R1 DG1 R1 DG1 R1 DG1 R1 DG28 R6 K/4

One full sett is 442 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DG#053819 #053819oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
LY#DCBC32 #DCBC32oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)

Sample pattern

LY/50 DG16 LY8 K8 DG1 K1 DG1 K1 DG1 K1 DG1 K1 DG1 K1 DG1 K1 DG20 K40 LY12 K24 R8 DG1 R1 DG1 R1 DG1 R1 DG1 R1 DG1 R1 DG1 R1 DG28 R6 K/4 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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ID: /variants/s36/ly50dg16ly8k8dg1k1dg1k1dg1k1dg1k1dg1k1dg1k1dg20k40ly12k24r8dg1r1dg1r1dg1r1dg1r1dg1r1dg1r1dg28r6k4/

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