Harmon of Plenderleith (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 KBYBYBRGRBBKBGBGBY.
Part of the Harmon of Plenderleith tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10021
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
- Mar. 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: 10021
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10021
History
Where this cloth's colourway came from and what descended from it — the source and evolution of its palette. Same design, different variants; a genuine colour difference is history, not an error.
Descended from:
- copied ← Harmon of Plenderleith Personal Tartan — Scottish Tartans Authority capture: copies the House of Tartan palette (gold, olive, navy, red, black are identical) and differs only in the blue role — a re-render drift, not a new colourway.
Thread count
K/4 DBi12 LY4 DBi4 LY4 DBi38 R4 G4 R4 DBi4 DB8 K4 DB22 G4 DB4 G4 DB12 LY/4
One full sett is 280 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | oklch(34.5% 0.089 246.0) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| 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
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.21 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/k2dbi6ly2dbi2ly2dbi19r2g2r2dbi2db4k2db11g2db2g2db6ly2x2dbi1406275-db1404245/