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Santa's Sleigh Ride
"🎶 You'd better watch out.
You'd better not cry.
You'd better not pout, I'm telling you why.
Santa Claus is coming to town!"
~ John Frederick Coots/Haven Gillespie, 1934
Today is the day of reckoning for who has made Santa’s Naughty and Nice list, as he loads up the sleigh and readies Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, and Vixen—not to mention Comet, Cupid, Donder, and Blitzen… and of course, Rudolph. The reindeer are harnessed, the sleigh is packed, and Santa has surely finished reading every last letter sent his way.
For decades, children have known exactly where to send those wishes. Canada Post famously assigned the North Pole its very own postal code—H0H 0H0, a nod to Santa’s traditional “Ho ho ho!”—back in 1982. Each year, approximately one million letters bearing that magical code arrive, and every single one is answered by Santa’s helpers, thoughtfully replied to in the language or form in which it was written.
And if you’re eager to follow Santa’s progress as Christmas approaches, you can always keep an eye on him through NORAD, which tracks his journey around the globe and lets families know exactly when he’s on the move.
The colours woven into this tartan reflect that very magic: red to mark the points of the compass, Tiber for the deep winter darkness, and blue and white for the icy brilliance of the North Pole itself. Do you hear the jingle bells drawing nearer? Ho! Ho! Ho! 💙 🤍 ❤️ 💙 ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ 💌 🦌 🦌 🦌 🎁 🎁 🎁
For Christmas Eve, we have the North Pole tartan for the location of Santa's secret workshop and departure location for his Christmas Eve journey by reindeer sleigh.
While the South Pole lies on a continental land mass, the North Pole is located in the middle of the Arctic Ocean amid waters that are almost permanently covered with constantly shifting sea ice. This makes it impractical for anyone but Santa to construct a permanent station at the North Pole (unlike the South Pole).
Perhaps counterintuitively, the North Pole is substantially warmer than the South Pole because it lies at sea level in the middle of an ocean (which acts as a reservoir of heat), rather than at altitude on a continental land mass. Winter temperatures at the North Pole can range from about −50 to −13 °C (−58 to 9 °F), averaging around −31 °C (−24 °F).
From designer Carol A.L. Martin, the colours used in this tartan are: Red, to mark the points of the compass, Tiber for the winter darkness, and Blue and White for the ice.
Ho ho ho!