Sydney (Nova Scotia) (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 BKWKBRBR.
Part of the Sydney tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1291
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- t Jan 1986 — Sydney (Nova Scotia) (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed for the bi-centenial of Sydney, Nova Scotia. The grey shown here was originally shown as blue. Nomindex states: colours representative of the city's only main employer, the Speco Steel Plant which manufatures steel mainly for railway lines. Grey for the steel, red/oOrange for the hot steel ingots; black for the coal for the furnaces and off-white for the limestone used in production of steel. - 01/01/2002 — Sydney (Nova Scotia) #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Mrs Rod Mullin for the City of Sydney, Nova Scotia, the colours reflect the citys main employer, Sepco Steel Works. Registered with the Scottish Tartans Society.
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
- t Jan 1986 (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: 4058
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1291
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1291
Thread count
O/32 N4 O22 N12 K8 W4 K8 N/32
One full sett is 180 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| 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/s8/n16k4w2k4n6o11n2o16~x2/