St. Lawrence
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 KBGBBBBBBBBYKBGKR.
Part of the St. Lawrence tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 17 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3897
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1963 — St. Lawrence (register-of-tartans, record)
Started off life as a Fashion tartan. It is not known if it has yet achieved District Tartan status.There is some confusion as to the large blue count which is either B32 or B52. Presented to the Scottish Tartans Society collection by Mr A Yule in 1963. - 1963 — St. Lawrence (District) (tartans-authority, record)
The St Lawrence Tartan, designed by Mrs. Helene Cobb of Clayton and is the registered trademark of the Thousand Islands Museum in Clayton, New York State - www.timuseum.org Woven by Peter MacArthur of Biggar, Scotland.. The greens are for the cedars along the shore, the blues are for the St Lawrence River, and the red is the sunset over the Islands. John Fitzpatrick in his eview of Canadian tartans in July 2008, pointed out that there were two slightly different thread counts given in the CIDD.
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
- 1963 (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: 3897
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1030
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1030
Thread count
K/6 DB4 G4 DB52 T2 DB2 T2 DB2 T2 DB2 T6 LG4 K20 DB6 G28 K6 R/6
One full sett is 296 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LG | #82D67A #82D67A | oklch(80.1% 0.150 142.2) |
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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/s17/k3db2g2db26t1db1t1db1t1db1t3lg2k10db3g14k3r3~x2/