Head of The Lakes
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 BBWBWBGBWG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1639
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1996 Designed by Joan Forrester Troniak & Fiona Irwin as a District Tartan to comemorate the 25th anniversary of the Ontario city of Thunder Bay which has adopted it.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1995 — Head of The Lakes (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Joan Forrester Troniak & Fiona Irwin as a District Tartan to comemorate the 25th anniversary of the Ontario city of Thunder Bay which has adopted it. - Mar. 1995 — Head of The Lakes (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Joan Forrester Troniak & Fiona Irwin as a District Tartan to comemorate the 25th anniversary of the Ontario city of Thunder Bay which has adopted it. - 1996 — Head of the Lakes District Canada Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 1995 (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: 1639
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2241
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2241
Thread count
G/14 LB4 DB56 DG28 DP10 LB4 DP10 LB4 DB54 T/4
One full sett is 358 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
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/s10/g7lb2db28dg14dp5lb2dp5lb2db27t2~x2/