Brown, George
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 GGKRGRKRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=395
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Brown, George (register-of-tartans, record)
George Brown (1818-1880) was one of the 'Fathers' of the Confederation. He was born in Alloa, Scotland, established the Toronto Globe newspaper and was MP for Canada West (Ontario). Scottish Tartans Society note the Sainthill-Levine Company who produced a whole range of 'Canadiana tartans'. - pre 2002 — Brown, George (Commemorative) (tartans-authority, record)
1818 - 1880. One of the Fathers of the Confederation. Born in Alloa, Scotland. Formed Toronto Globe newspaper and was MP for Canada West (Ontario). Sample in STA Johnston Collection. STS notes mention Sainthill-Levine Co. who produced this whole range of "Canadiana tartans."
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
- 2002 (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: 395
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1853
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1853
Thread count
Y/6 G48 K36 R8 G44 R12 K8 R6 W/6
One full sett is 336 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s9/y3g24k18r4g22r6k4r3w3~x2/