Victoria, City of (British Columbia)
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 RGRKYR.
Part of the Victoria, City of tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4458
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1991 — Victoria, City of (British Columbia) (register-of-tartans, record)
A rhapsody in colour reminiscent of the atmosphere and heritage unique to British Columbia's capital. The tartan reveals old red bricks, granite stone, topped with turquoise oxidised copper domes, accented with ox blood red, combined with hunter green and the warmth of Victorian old rose. - 1991 — Victoria, City of (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
"A rhapsody in colour reminiscent of our atmosphere and heritage unique to British Columbia's capital. The tartan reveals old red bricks, granite stone, topped with turquoise oxidsised copper domes, accented with ox blood red, combined with hunter green and the warmth of Victorian old rose." Notes from Johnston Collection. Colours taken from colour photocopy of the tartan in those notes. Alec & Edith Armstrong came from Victoria
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
- 1991 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - 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: 4458
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4344
Thread count
R/20 G8 Ri8 K8 LO28 R/8
One full sett is 132 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| R | #A00000 #A00000 | oklch(44.3% 0.182 29.2) |
| 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) |
| R | #E87878 #E87878 | oklch(70.0% 0.139 21.2) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
ID: /variants/s6/r5g2ri2k2lo7r2x4r4418030-ri6914021/