Hitchens, William Henry
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 RKRKRKBKBGBGKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10251
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 09/07/2010 — Hitchens, William Henry (register-of-tartans, record)
William Henry Hitchens (1894–1950) was born in Cornwall, the son of a tin miner who became a miner himself. After serving in World War I with the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry he migrated to Canada to work in the gold mines of northern Ontario. The bright red reflects Canada, with five stripes to represent his children. The green represents the land and the blue the depths and broad expanse of the oceans between Cornwall and Canada. The black and white reflect St. Piran’s Cross and the Cornish flag. - pre 2010 — Hitchens, William Henry (Commem) (tartans-authority, record)
William Henry Hitchens (1894-1950) was born a Cornishman to a family centuries rooted in Cornwall. He was the son of a tin miner and became a miner himself. After serving in World War I with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry he migrated to Canada to work in the gold mines of northern Ontario. He fathered five children and always expressed his love of Cornwall to them. He repeatedly voiced his desire to one day return "home" to Redruth. In 1950, William Henry died - without realising his dream of returning to his beloved Cornwall. The colours and sett of this commemorative tartan illustrate the bright red of Canada set in five stripes to represent his children, all born in Canada. The dark red and the black stripe are in memoriam and are sett to show William Henry on the shores of Canada, eyes ever looking homeward across the seas to Cornwall. The green stripes are the shores and the blue the depths and broad expanse of the oceans between his homeland and Canada. The black and white are St. Piran's Cross, the Patron Saint of Tinners and the Cornish National Flag. William Henry Hitchens is the maternal grandfather of the tartan designer, Eric Duane Genet, and Genet's most recent (though not exclusive) Celtic ancestor.
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
- 09/07/2010 (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: 10251
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10251
Thread count
R/8 K4 R4 K4 R4 K4 DR16 K12 DR4 G4 DB18 G4 K42 W/8
One full sett is 256 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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
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