Hird (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 BGKRKBKBKGRBWRKYKRWBRBRYBWBYR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 29 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1735
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1996 Designed for the wedding of Miss Fiona Hird to a Mr. Blumsden. A very complex non-reversing design. Said to combine three checks, James C.Hird, Kathleen E. Hird and Fiona J.Hird but the meaning of that comment is not understood. The STS version appears to differ in some respects from the generally accepted sett. No SINDEX details on this so difficult to check either way. (EBW Feb 2005).
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1996 — Hird (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed for the wedding of Miss Fiona Hird to a Mr. Blumsden. A very complex non-reversing design. Said to combine three checks, James C.Hird, Kathleen E. Hird and Fiona J.Hird but the meaning of that comment is not understood. The Scottish Tartans Society version appears to differ in some respects from the generally accepted sett. No SINDEX details on this so difficult to check either way. (Scottish Tartans Authority February 2005). - 1996 — Hird Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 1996 (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: 1735
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2243
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2243
Thread count
DB/8 G8 K40 R10 K8 DR10 K8 DB10 K36 G8 R16 DB4 LB4 R32 K8 LO4 K8 R32 LB4 DB4 R12 DB12 R4 LO4 DB40 LB4 DB40 LO4 R/6
One full sett is 762 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | oklch(26.3% 0.162 277.1) |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| R | #880000 #880000 | oklch(39.4% 0.162 29.2) |
| DR | #680028 #680028 | oklch(33.1% 0.133 8.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
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/s29/db4g4k20r5k4dr5k4db5k18g4r8db2lb2r16k4lo2k4r16lb2db2r6db6r2lo2db20lb2db20lo2r3x2db1406275-r1606028-dr1305012/