Highlands of Haliburton (District)
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 GRBGGWWGWBRGWGW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=147
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1978 From Miss Sinclair. Registration number is possibly a Canadian Patent Office number.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1963 — Highlands of Haliburton (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Miss M Patricia Jenkins MA, founder of The Loomcrofters of Gagetown (Est. 1941), New Brunswick, Nova Scotia. Blue and green are for the waters and forests, red & gold for autumn foliage and loyalty to 'Crown and Country' and white for the provincial flower the Trillium and for the winter snow. Brown is for the earth and all fur-bearing animals. The Highlands of Haliburton are in Ontario surrounding Minden and Haliburton and including part of Algonquin Park. Tartan was originally registered in the CIDD but that coverage has now lapsed. Woven by Fraser & Kirkbright of Vancouver. - 01/01/1970 — Highlands of Haliburton (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Miss M Patricia Jenkins MA, founder of The Loomcrofters of Gagetown, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia. Blue and green are for the waters, red & gold for autumn foliage and loyalty to 'Crown and Country' and white for the provincial flower the Trillium and for the winter snow. Brown is for the earth and all fur-bearing animals. The Highlands of Haliburton are in Ontario surrounding Minden and Haliburton and including part of Algonquin Park. - 1978 — Haliburton Canadian Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Haliburton, Highlands of... (weddslist, record)
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
- 1963 (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: 1571
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 147
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 147
Thread count
LB/12 G4 LB4 G20 R8 DO16 LB12 G8 W4 LB4 Y4 G4 DO8 R8 Y/4
One full sett is 224 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DO | #412714 #412714 | oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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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