Heartlands Fancy Tartan
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 BBBBBBGBGKB.
Part of the Heartlands Fancy tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=3443
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2002 Designed by Erica Randall of House of Edgar for MacGregor & MacDuff of 41 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 1HW for use in their kilt hire business. The customer requested that the tartan be based upon the Melville sett. Date of application 6th November 2002. In May 2003 the business was sold by Mr Robert Brown who elected to retain the copyright of this tartan.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 2002 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
DB/8 T2 DT40 DB4 DT4 DB36 DG4 DB4 DG44 K4 DP/8
One full sett is 300 threads.
The source recorded this cloth as DB/8 T2 DT40 DB4 DT4 DB36 DG4 DB4 DG44 K4 DP8 K4 DG44 DB4 DG4 DB36 DT4 DB4 DT40 T/2 — 590 threads; it folds to the canonical 300-thread sett above.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
ID: /variants/s11/db4t1dt20db2dt2db18dg2db2dg22k2dp4~x2/