Canmore
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 BGBGBWBKB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=553
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1995 — Canmore (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan, originally named ‘Highlander’, was woven by the Strathmore Woollen Company for a client who went into liquidation. It was woven into children's kilts and re-named ‘Canmore’ after a local Forfar name. - 1995 — Canmore (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Notes stated: Tartan kilt for sale at Stone Mountain Games 1995 bearing Strathmore label. This tartan was originally woven by Strathmore as 'Highlander' for a client who went into liquidation. Strathmore converted what was woven into children's kilts and re-named it 'Canmore' after a local Forfar name. This therefore has no connection with 'Canmore' in Alberta.
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
- 1995 (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: 553
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4450
Thread count
DB/8 K6 DB56 W4 DP12 DG56 N4 DG8 DP/8
One full sett is 308 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #146400 #146400 | oklch(43.9% 0.144 140.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #683C8C #683C8C | oklch(44.7% 0.132 307.3) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
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.
ID: /variants/s9/db4k3db28w2dp6dg28n2dg4dp4x2dg1806142-n1805302/