Canmore Highland Games (Corporate)

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 GBKWKBKBGKGG.

Part of the Canmore Highland Games tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 12 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10008

Provenance

Earliest known date: May 2000 This tartan represents Canmore's Scottish roots, namely King Malcolm Ceann Mor and the Scots who worked the Canadian Pacific Railway and settled in this area.

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • May 2000 — Canmore Highland Games (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
    This tartan represents Canmore's Scottish roots, namely King Malcolm Ceann Mor and the Scots who worked the Canadian Pacific Railway and settled in this area. Each colour represents an aspect of life in Canmore: green is for the evergreen forests, blue and yellow are for the sunny Alberta skies, black represents the coal mines, white for the winter's snow-capped peaks, and fuschia represents the mountain heathers and wildflowers. The colours were chosen to be both regional and historical. The Canmore Highland Games tartan has been adopted as the Town's official Scottish colours. The Canmore Highland Games began in 1991, and is held annually on the Sunday of the Labour Day weekend. Tartan available through the Three Sisters Scottish Festival Society who organise the Canmore Highland Games.
  • May 2000 — Canmore Highland Games Corporate 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
May 2000 (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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

G/140 DB6 K18 W8 K8 DP8 K6 DB24 G18 K8 G8 Y/8

One full sett is 372 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

G/140 DB6 K18 W8 K8 DP8 K6 DB24 G18 K8 G8 Y/8 tartan

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 0.30 — 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 (top) woven against the master sett (bottom) this sett master sett ★
One weave of this sett against the master sett ★, split on the diagonal: a shared proportion runs seamlessly across it with only the shades shifting; a different proportion breaks on it.

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.

Canmore Highland GamesStuart/Stewart (Variant)Sillars (Name)Princess Mary Royal Family TartanPrincess Mary #2New York Caledonian Club DayKennedyKennedyKennedySavoygroundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s12/g70db3k9w4k4dp4k3db12g9k4g4y4~x2/

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