Thousand Islands

Its design is pattern BWYKWRWGRW — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.

Designed by Grindstone Island weaver Emily Post in the 1970s; light blue for skies and granite, dark blue for rivers, green for trees, orange for rainbows.

The Thousand Islands tartan is recorded as a single sett.

SettΔTartanThread countThreadsDate
Thousand IslandsDB/40 LB16 LO10 K12 LB8 R6 LB6 Y60 R4 LB/62901970
Thousand Islands sett

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