St Lawrence District Tartan
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 KBGBBBBBBBBBKBGKR.
Part of the St. Lawrence tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 17 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1030
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 1963 Presented to the STS collection by Mr A Yule in 1963. 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 review 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
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- pre 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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
K/6 DB4 G4 DB52 T2 DB2 T2 DB2 T2 DB2 T6 Ti4 K20 DB6 G28 K6 R/6
One full sett is 296 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | oklch(61.7% 0.067 235.0) |
| T | #2888C4 #2888C4 | oklch(60.1% 0.125 241.5) |
| 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.31 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/k3db2g2db26t1db1t1db1t1db1t3ti2k10db3g14k3r3x2t2405244-ti2503227/