Saskatchewan Dress (Dance)
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 GWRWGGKW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7696
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1977 — Saskatchewan Dress (Dance) (tartans-authority, record)
This is #1817 with the light brown changed to white and introduced in 1997 for the Canadian Interprovincial Highland Dancing Championships held in Regina. Not in the CIDD and info has come from the Government of Saskatchewan website courtesy of researcher John Fitzpatrick of Vancouver Island. Was woven by Fraser & Kirkbright of Vancouver. - undated — Saskatchewan Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
This is #1817 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) with the light brown changed to white and introduced in 1997 for the Canadian Interprovincial Highland Dancing Championships held in Regina. Not in the CIDD and info has come from the Government of Saskatchewan website courtesy of researcher John Fitzpatrick of Vancouver Island. Was woven by Fraser & Kirkbright of Vancouver.
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
- 1977 (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: 5693
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7696
Thread count
Y/4 W2 R4 W52 DY22 G12 K2 W/4
One full sett is 196 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/y2w1r2w26dy11g6k1w2~x2/