Atholl Highlanders (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 RGKBKR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3017
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 2002 — Atholl Highlanders (Military) (tartans-authority, record)
The Duke of Atholl's own Regiment. The Duke of Atholl - Blair Atholl Castle is in Perthshire- is the only individual in the United Kingdom who is still legally allowed to keep his own private army.C f Wilsons' Coarse Kilt with Red. STA sample from D C Dalgliesh 1986. - undated — Atholl Highlanders (register-of-tartans, record)
The Atholl Highlanders are the Duke of Atholl's own Regiment. The Duke of Atholl (Blair Atholl, Perthshire) is the only individual in the United Kingdom who is still legally allowed to keep his own private army.
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
- pre 2002 (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: 5144
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3017
Thread count
R/16 DG40 K40 DB40 K6 R/16
One full sett is 284 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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/s6/r8dg20k20db20k3r8~x2/