Canmore Highland Games Dress (Corp)
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 GGKGBKBKWKBW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10009
Provenance
Earliest known date: May 2000 Tartan available through the Three Sisters Scottish Festival Society who organise the Canmore Highland Games.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- May 2000 — Canmore Highland Games Dress (Corp) (tartans-authority, record)
This tartan represents Canmore's Scottish roots, namely King Malcolm Ceann Mor and the Scots who worked the Canadian Pacific Railway and settled in this area. Each colour represents an aspect of life in Canmore: green is for the evergreen forests, blue and yellow are for the sunny Alberta skies, black represents the coal mines, white for the winter's snow-capped peaks, and fuschia represents the mountain heathers and wildflowers. The colours were chosen to be both regional and historical. The Canmore Highland Games tartan has been adopted as the Town's official Scottish colours. The Canmore Highland Games began in 1991, and is held annually on the Sunday of the Labour Day weekend. Tartan available through the Three Sisters Scottish Festival Society who organise the Canmore Highland Games. - May 2000 — Canmore Highland Games Dress Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Canmore Highland Games Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan represents Canmore's Scottish roots, namely King Malcolm Ceann Mor and the Scots who worked the Canadian Pacific Railway and settled in the area. Each colour represents as aspect of life in Canmore: green for the evergreen forests, blue and yellow for the sunny Alberta skies, black for the coal mines, white for winter's snow capped peaks and fuschia for the mountain heathers and wildflowers. The colours were chosen to be both regional and historical. The Canmore Highland Games tartan has been adopted as the town's official Scottish colours. The Canmore Highland Games began in 1991 and are held annually on the Sunday of Labour Day weekend.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- May 2000 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 10009
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10009
Thread count
W/104 DB4 K14 W6 K4 DP4 K2 DB18 G16 K4 G6 Y/4
One full sett is 264 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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.
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