Hallingdal
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 GGRKRKRKRKGRGKRKRKRKRG.
Part of the Hallingdal tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 22 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1574
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1970 — Hallingdal (register-of-tartans, record)
Erik Paulsen (Scottish Tartans Society Member) records that this pattern was produced around 1970 in Halligndal - a secluded valley in central Norway. He states that in Hallingdal there is a living tradition of tartan but that he can find no concrete evidence of Scottish influence in the area. Sample donated to the Scottish Tartans Society by Elizabeth Speir. - 1970 — Hallingdal (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Erik Paulsen (STS Member) records that this pattern was produced around 1970 in Hallingdal - a secluded valley in central Norway. He states that in Hallingdal there is a living tradition of tartan but that he can find no concrete evidence of Scottish influence in the area. Sample donated to the STS by Elizabeth Speir.
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
- 1970 (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: 1574
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1021
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1021
Thread count
G/4 DY2 R4 K24 R4 K4 R4 K4 R26 K4 DY2 R4 DY2 K4 R26 K4 R4 K4 R4 K24 R4 DY/2
One full sett is 322 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s12/r2dy1k2r13k2r2k2r2k12r2dy1g2~x2/