Thousand Islands District Tartan
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 BWYKWRWGRW.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=7526
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1970s According to the folks at the 1000 Islands Inn, it was designed by a local person, possibly in the 1970s, and manufactured by a Scottish company that is now unfortunately out of business. Further research states: It was a Grindstone summer resident, Emily Post, who was a weaver who designed the plaid known as the Thousand Island Tartan. Grindstone is one of the 'Thousand Islands' just across the water from Clayton. This is not thought to be the famous etiquette author Emily Post who died in 1960. Light blue is for the skies and grey granite of the islands, dark blue for the rivers, green for the trees and orange for the beautiful rainbows visible from the islands. Infromation from John Fitzpatrick's 2008 review of Canadian tartans and some US border tartans. Colours are as specified in CIDD but the graphic shown here is estimated from a small computer graphic. JF's estimated count from a CIDD drawing is: B/40 LB6 O6 K6 LB6 RUST2 LB6 G32 RUST2 B/6.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1970 — Thousand Islands District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Thousand Islands (register-of-tartans, record)
"According to the folks at the 1000 Islands Inn, it was designed by a local person, possibly in the 1970s, and manufactured by a Scottish company that is now unfortunately out of business!" Further research states: " It was a Grindstone summer resident, Emily Post, who was a weaver who designed the plaid known as the Thousand Island Tartan." Grindstone is one of the 'Thousand Islands' just across the water from Clayton. This is not thought to be the famous etiquette author Emily Post who died in 1960. Light blue is for the skies and grey granite of the islands, dark blue for the rivers, green for the trees and orange for the beautiful rainbows visible from the islands. Infromation from John Fitzpatrick's 2008 review of Canadian tartans and some US border tartans. Colours are as specified in CIDD but the graphic shown here is estimated from a poor computer graphic. JF's estimated count from a CIDD drawing is: B/40 LB6 O6 K6 LB6 RUST2 LB6 G32 RUST2 B/6. - 1970s — Thousand Islands (District, USA)) (tartans-authority, record)
"According to the folks at the 1000 Islands Inn, it was designed by a local person, possibly in the 1970s, and manufactured by a Scottish company that is now unfortunately out of business!" Further research states: " It was a Grindstone summer resident, Emily Post, who was a weaver who designed the plaid known as the Thousand Island Tartan." Grindstone is one of the 'Thousand Islands' just across the water from Clayton. This is not thought to be the famous etiquette author Emily Post who died in 1960. Light blue is for the skies and grey granite of the islands, dark blue for the rivers, green for the trees and orange for th beautiful rainbows visible from the islands. Infromation from John Fitzpatrick's 2008 review of Canadian tartans and some US border tartans. Colours are as specified in CIDD but the graphic shown here is estimated from a poor computer graphic. JF's estimated count from a CIDD drawing is: B/40 LB6 O6 K6 LB6 RUST2 LB6 G32 RUST2 B/6. The following explanation is from Wikipedia: "The Thousand Islands is the name of a chain of islands that straddle the U.S.-Canada border in the Saint Lawrence River as it emerges from the northeast corner of Lake Ontario. They stretch for about 50 miles (80 km) downstream from Kingston, Ontario. The Canadian islands are in the province of Ontario. The U.S. islands are in the state of New York. The islands, which number 1,865 in all, range in size from over 40 square miles (100 km?) to smaller islands occupied by a single residence, to even smaller uninhabited outcroppings of rocks that are home to migratory waterfowl. The number of islands was determined using the criteria that any island must be above water level for 365 days per year, bigger than one square foot (roughly 900 cm?), and support at least one tree or shrub. The area is very popular among vacationers, campers, and boaters, and is often referred to as the 'fresh water boating capital of the world. "The area is frequently traveled by large freighters on their way into and out of the Great Lakes shipping lanes, but is so riddled with shoals and rocks that local navigators are hired to help the vessels travel through the hazardous waterway."
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1970 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 5563
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7526
Thread count
DB/40 LB16 LO10 K12 LB8 R6 LB6 Y60 R4 LB/6
One full sett is 290 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartan variants
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Neighbour map
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