Labrador (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 WKGRGKYKWKW.
Part of the Labrador tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10004
Provenance
Earliest known date: Feb. 2009 Officially adopted by the combined Councils of Labrador in February 2010. This tartan has been designed to celebrate the Labrador Scottish Heritage.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- Feb. 2009 — Labrador (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Officially adopted by the combined Councils of Labrador in February 2010. This tartan has been designed to celebrate the Labrador Scottish Heritage. The starting point was the tartan of the Grants of Strathspey since Donald Smith, Lord Strathcona, one of the founders of the Dominion of Canada, was a grandson of the family. The sett and the colours have been changed to make the tartan uniquely Labradorean. Donald Smith set the standard for fur trapping and trading that was the principle element of the pioneer economy. This tartan may only be woven by the designer, Michael S. Martin, or his assigns. This tartan is registered with the Trade Marks office of the Government of Canada and the titles "Tartan of Labrador" and "Labrador Tartan" have been designated to describe the design. - undated — Labrador District Tartan (house-of-tartan, 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
- Feb. 2009 (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: 10004
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10004
Thread count
LB/22 K4 LB4 K4 LY4 K22 DG60 R4 DG6 K2 W/10
One full sett is 252 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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 0.03 — 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/s11/lb11k2lb2k2ly2k11dg30r2dg3k1w5~x2/