Lake Ainslie Heritage
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 WRGRGWW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2030
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1985 — Lake Ainslie Heritage (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan was designed by Verna MacMillan and registered at the Scottish Tartans Society, in Comrie Scotland, in 1985 on the occasion of Cape Breton's Bicentennial. The following was composed in 1985 by Vincent Smith, Allan MacMillan and Verna MacMillan: BLUE for the water, the sky above and the blueberries that grow. WHITE for the cross of St. Andrew, the Barite and the snow. GOLD for the clean sandy beaches and the rising of the sun. RED for the beautiful sunsets which are second to none. GREEN for the mountains, spruce and pine, as proud and tall they stand. And the grass that blows in the wind like waves upon the land. When settlers came from Europe's shores so many years ago, They brought with them a pride and strength that's not seen anymore. They faced the harsh cold winter storms, had many hungry days. They lived by Faith and Fear of God and strict religious ways. This TARTAN, that we weave today, pays tribute to the old, The flag they left, the shores they found, this HERITAGE is told. - 1985 — Ainslie, Lake (District) (tartans-authority, record)
This tartan was designed by Verna MacMillan and registered at the Scottish Tartans Society, in Comrie Scotland, in 1985 on the occasion of Cape Breton's Bicentennial The following was composed in 1985 by Vincent Smith, Allan MacMillan and Verna MacMillan: BLUE for the water, the sky above and the blueberries that grow. WHITE for the cross of St. Andrew, the Barite and the snow. GOLD for the clean sandy beaches and the rising of the sun. RED for the beautiful sunsets which are second to none. GREEN for the mountains, spruce and pine, as proud and tall they stand. And the grass that blows in the wind like waves upon the land. When settlers came from Europe's shores so many years ago, They brought with them a pride and strength that's not seen anymore. They faced the harsh cold winter storms, had many hungry days. They lived by Faith and Fear of God and strict religious ways. This TARTAN, that we weave today, pays tribute to the old, The flag they left, the shores they found, this HERITAGE is told. - 01/01/2002 — Cooper/Couper Dress (Dalgleish #2) (register-of-tartans, record)
In D.C. Dalgliesh swatch book of Dance Tartans but the actual status of this is not known i.e. is it a legitimate Dress version of the Clan Tartan or is it merely a Dance sett?
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
- 1985 (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: 2030
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 586
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 574
Thread count
LB/16 W32 G36 R4 Y8 R2 LB/8
One full sett is 188 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s7/lb8w16g18r2y4r1lb4~x2/