Hill (Name)
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 KRKBGBGBW.
Part of the Hill tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10013
Provenance
Earliest known date: Mar. 2009 An important branch of the Hills was based in Angus from the mid 15th century and this design by James Hill reflects that with its use of the Angus District tartan as its inspiration. The blue, silver and gold are features of the arms of the designer's family and other such families as Hill of Lambhill, Hill of Merrylees and the designer.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- Mar. 2009 — Hill (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Can be worn by all of the name. An important branch of the Hills was based in Angus from the mid 15th century and this design by James Hill reflects that with its use of the Angus District tartan as its inspiration. The blue, silver and gold are features of the arms of the designer's family and other such families as Hill of Lambhill, Hill of Merrylees and the designer. - undated — Hill Name Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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: 10013
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10013
Thread count
W/6 DB4 Y2 DB4 Y2 DB62 K56 R4 K/4
One full sett is 278 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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 0.07 — 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/s9/w3db2y1db2y1db31k28r2k2~x2/