Edmonton, City of
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 WGGGBGWWY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1087
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1977 — Edmonton, City of (register-of-tartans, record)
The official tartan of Edmonton was created by the Edmonton Rehabilitation Society and was approved on May 10th 1977. The predominant colour is light blue which symbolizes the city's clear blue skies. The green is for agriculture, the yellow for the sun and prairie wheat. The white represents peace and snow. The city's official colours of purple and gold are also included and the gold also represents the marigold - Edmonton's official flower. The Scottish Tartans Authority was unaware of this tartan until January 2007 - 30 years after it was designed. Threadcount doubled. Woven sample from Scottish Imports Inc. of Edmonton. - May 1977 — City of Edmonton (District) (tartans-authority, record)
This official tartan was created and first woven by the Goodwill Rehabilitation Service of Edmonton with the approval of the City Council (May 10th 1977 or 14th March 1978) and in return Goodwill received the commercial rights to the tartan for 10 years, although the city retained the full use of the tartan during that period. The predominant colour is light blue which symbolizes the city's clear blue skies. The green is for agriculture, the yellow for the sun and prairy wheat. The white represents peace and snow. The city's official colours of purple and gold are also included and the gold also represents the marigold - Edmonton's official flower. The STA was unaware of this tartan until January 2007 - 30 years after it was designed. Threadcount doubled. Woven sample from Scottish Imports Inc. of Edmonton. Canadian researcher John Fitzpatrick of Vancouver Island has has advised (July 2008) that in the proposed design standard of Dec. 1978, blue was to be included to represent the ideas of strength and water, in particular the North Saskatchewan river, Edmonton's first means of access and trading. The idea may have been dropped prior to registration of the tartan or perhaps the blue was reckoned to be formed by the interesction of light blue and purple.
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
- 1977 (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: 1087
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7262
Thread count
LB/32 Y8 G16 Y8 DP16 Y8 LB32 W60 LY/8
One full sett is 336 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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/s9/lb8y2g4y2dp4y2lb8w15ly2~x4/