Red Hackle (Military)
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 BKBKBKGKGKBKR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10124
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1st Oct. 2009 The Red Hackle tartan has been designed as a tribute to the men and women of The Black Watch, both past and present. Originally used to identify troops in the midst of battle, it is not known whether it was first used during the American War of Independence or later during the battle of Geldermaisen campaign on January 5th, 1795, what is beyond dispute is that in 1822 the Army's Adjutant General confirmed the unique right of the 42nd Regiment (Black Watch) to wear the Red Hackle in their bonnets. In memory of Geldermeisen, the 5th January subsequently became the regimental day, and is now known as Red Hackle Day. The new tartan is based on Black Watch tartan, to which a series of overchecks in two shades of red has been added. It was selected from a number of designs submitted to the regimental headquarters at Balhousie Castle in Perth. A portion of all sales of the tartan will be donated to The Black Watch Heritage Appeal. This tartan may only be woven by House of Edgar or its sub-licencees.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1st Oct. 2009 — Red Hackle (Military) (tartans-authority, record)
The Red Hackle tartan has been designed as a tribute to the men and women of The Black Watch, both past and present. Originally used to identify troops in the midst of battle, there is doubt as to exactly when the Black Watch's unique Red Hackle was adopted by the Regiment. Whether it was first used during the American War of Independence or later during the battle of Geldermaisen campaign on January 5th, 1795, what is beyond dispute is that in 1822 the Army's Adjutant General confirmed the unique right of the 42nd Regiment (Black Watch) to wear the Red Hackle in their bonnets. In memory of Geldermeisen, the 5th January subsequently became the regimental day, and is now known as Red Hackle Day. The new tartan is based on perhaps the world's most recognised textile design, the famous Black Watch tartan, to which a series of overchecks in two shades of red has been added. It was selected from a number of designs submitted to the regimental headquarters at Balhousie Castle in Perth. A proportion of all sales of the tartan will be donated to The Black Watch Heritage Appeal. This tartan may only be woven by House of Edgar or its sub-licencees. - undated — Red Hackle Regimental Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 1st Oct. 2009 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 10124
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10124
Thread count
DP/44 K4 DR4 K4 DR4 K28 G32 K4 G32 K28 DP32 K4 R/4
One full sett is 400 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| 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) |
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/s13/dp11k1dr1k1dr1k7g8k1g8k7dp8k1r1~x4/