Harris (1997) (Personal)
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 KWKRKRKRKBKBWBKBKRKRKRKWKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 26 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1617
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1997 — Harris (1997) (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Brother Ron William (Harris) of the Order of the Holy Cross, West Park, NY 12443, USA. Based on the V.S. MacPherson because of the claimed ecclesiastical origin of the name. - pre 1997 — Harris (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
From Phil Smith May 2004. "Observed at Grandfather Mountain Games in 1997." No other details
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
- 1997 (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: 1617
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6262
Thread count
R/8 K2 W8 K2 R36 K6 R8 K6 R8 K20 DB60 K12 DB8 W12 DB8 K12 DB60 K20 R8 K6 R8 K6 R36 K2 W8 K/2
One full sett is 734 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s14/w6db4k6db30k10r4k3r4k3r18k1w4k1r4~x2/