Maine Acadia
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 GBGKGKGKG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10292
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 07/07/2010 — Maine Acadia (register-of-tartans, record)
The Maine Acadia Tartan was designed to honour and represent the Acadia region of Maine, USA. This region covers a geographic area in eastern Maine that ranges from approximately just north of Machias, Maine, south to Mt Desert Island. This area is so named due to the influx of peoples from the Acadia region of Canada after the relocation of French catholics by the British in 1755. Colours: fir green represents the balsam fir forests that abound in this area; grey blue represents the fog that often shrouds the coastline; black represents the dark, turbulent waters of the North Atlantic; and yellow represents the sun's morning rays that first touch the United States in this region. This tartan may be worn by anyone with an affinity for the design and/or Maine's Acadia region and its people. - 7th July 2010 — Maine Acadia (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
The Maine Acadia Tartan was designed to honour and represent the Acadia region of Maine, USA. This region covers a geographic area in eastern Maine that ranges from approximately just north of Machias, Maine, south to Mt Desert Island. This area is so named due to the influx of peoples from the Acadia region of Canada after the relocation of French catholics by the British in 1755. Colours: fir green represents the balsam fir forests that abound in this area; grey blue represents the fog that often shrouds the coastline; black represents the dark, turbulent waters of the North Atlantic; and yellow represents the sun's morning rays that first touch the United States in this region. This tartan may be worn by anyone with an affinity for the design and/or Maine's Acadia region and its people. This design can only be sold by Tartans of Maine and cannot be woven without thje express permission of Tartans of Maine.
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
- 07/07/2010 (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: 10292
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10292
Thread count
DG/10 K2 Y4 K2 DG38 K30 Y4 DB40 DG/6
One full sett is 256 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
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/s9/dg5k1y2k1dg19k15y2db20dg3~x2/