Keith McCormick (Personal)
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 GKGKGKBK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10011
Provenance
Earliest known date: Apr. 2009 A personal tartan for Keith McCormick and his family. Blue represents the Nashwaak River, a well known salmon river in New Brunswick; green is for the forest through which the river flows and since the designer is a retired barrister, his gown is represented by the black. This tartan is for the use of Keith McCormick, his immediate family and those with his permission during his lifetime. After Keith McCormick's death, this tartan can be worn by any of the name McCormick or its variants. This tartan should only be woven by permission of Keith McCormick during his lifetime. After Keith McCormick's death, it may be woven by anyone.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 10/02/2009 — Keith McCormick (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Three traditional colours are used in this tartan: blue represents the Nashwaak River, a well known salmon river, in New Brunswick; green represents the forest through which the Nashwaak River runs; black is the colour of a barrister's gown since the designer is a retired barrister and a member of the bar since 1969. Now a part-time student at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, the designer will be weaving a reduced version of this tartan as a course project. - Apr. 2009 — McCormick, Keith (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
A personal tartan for Keith McCormick and his family. Blue represents the Nashwaak River, a well known salmon river in New Brunswick; green is for the forest through which the river flows and since the designer is a retired barrister, his gown is represented by the black. This tartan is for the use of Keith McCormick, his immediate family and those with his permission during his lifetime. After Keith McCormick's death, this tartan can be worn by any of the name McCormick or its variants. This tartan should only be woven by permission of Keith McCormick during his lifetime. After Keith McCormick's death, it may be woven by anyone. - undated — McCormick, Keith (Personal) Canadian Personal Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 10/02/2009 (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: 10011
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10011
Thread count
K/4 DB20 K16 G12 K4 G12 K24 G/4
One full sett is 184 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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/s8/k1db5k4g3k1g3k6g1~x4/