Highland Blue
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 BGBGBGBBBWBBBGBGBG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1706
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
- 1993 (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: 1706
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5188
Thread count
G/26 DB10 Y6 T12 Y6 DB10 N12 DB56 W4 DB56 N12 DB10 Y6 T12 Y6 DB10 G26 DP/8
One full sett is 542 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | oklch(61.7% 0.067 235.0) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| LB | #98C8E8 #98C8E8 | oklch(81.0% 0.068 237.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s18/g13db5y3t6y3db5n6db28w2db28n6db5y3t6y3db5g13dp4x2t2503227/