Lindley-Highfield Name Tartan

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 BKGGWBG.

Part of the Lindley-Highfield tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 7 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=10002

Provenance

Earliest known date: 13 February 2009 'Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle' is a tartan of the family of the Lindley-Highfields of Ballumbie Castle, sometime Barons of Cartsburn. The colours of this particular tartan are taken from the armorial bearings of the Head of the Family of Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle.

Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
House of Tartan
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
data date
13 February 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

  1. House of Tartan
    the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity
  2. 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
  3. this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
    each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources

Thread count

DG/56 DP24 W8 G16 DG8 K16 DP/8

One full sett is 208 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DG#053819 #053819oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)

Sample pattern

DG/56 DP24 W8 G16 DG8 K16 DP/8 tartan

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.

Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie CastleMacRae HuntingGraham of Montrose RedRoyal College of Physicians (Corp)Montrose (1983)Gloucester County Pipe Band (Corp)LanarkshireDunfermline Bank of Scotland (Corp)Wilson's, No 183BlackRock (Asymmetrical)groundcomplexity

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