Williams Lake, City of
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 GKGGWBKBBWBBKBWGGK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4628
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2004 — Williams Lake, City of (register-of-tartans, record)
City of Williams Lake, British Columbia, Canada has its 75th year anniversary 15th March 2004. This tartan was endorsed by the City Council under Mayor Rick Gibson. It was designed and made by the city's Spinners and Weavers Guild. - 2004 March — City of Williams Lake (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Dorothy Unrau of the City of WilliamsLake Spinners & Weavers Guild (who also wove it) to celebrate the city's 75th anniversary on March 15th 2004. Officially accepted by the City Council (Mayor Rick Gibson). Yellow for the gold rush, blue for the lakes and rivers, green for the forest, red for the Hereford cattle, white for the winter playground and black for the Angus cattle.
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
- 2004 (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: 4628
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6736
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2999
Thread count
Y/12 K2 Y6 G6 W6 DR6 K4 DR6 DB6 W6 DB6 DR6 K4 DR6 W6 G6 Y6 K/2
One full sett is 190 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| 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) |
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/y6k1y3g3w3dr3k2dr3db3w3~x2/