Highland Glen (Corporate)
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 WRWRWKGYW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7521
Provenance
Earliest known date: Jan 2008 A corporate tartan for McMullin Kilts of New Deer, Aberdeenshire. Designed by Susan McMullin and Heather Yellowley (Strathmore Woollen Co.) Colours represent the Highland glens of Scotland - green of the hills, blue of the burns and red/burgundy of the heathers.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- Jan 2008 — Highland Glen (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
A corporate tartan for McMullin Kilts of New Deer, Aberdeenshire. Designed by Susan McMullin and Heather Yellowley (Strathmore Woollen Co.) Colours represent the Highland glens of Scotland - green of the hills, blue of the burns and red/burgundy of the heathers. - Jan 2008 — Highland Glen Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Highland Glen (register-of-tartans, record)
A corporate tartan for McMullin Kilts of New Deer, Aberdeenshire. Designed by Susan McMullin and Heather Yellowley (Strathmore Woollen Co.) Colours represent the Highland glens of Scotland - green of the hills, blue of the burns and red/burgundy of the heathers.
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
- Jan 2008 (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: 5559
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7521
Thread count
LB/100 R6 LB8 R8 LB14 K28 DG62 LY4 W/4
One full sett is 364 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s9/lb50r3lb4r4lb7k14dg31ly2w2~x2/