Golden Heather, The (Fashion)
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 RYRYRBRYYY.
Part of the Golden Heather, The tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/5051/ — retired · Internet Archive copy
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 1975 (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; dead record links are shown unlinked, with an Internet Archive copy (ITI numbers are not SRT references) - 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 Tartans Authority (ITI): 5051
Thread count
R/4 LY40 O4 LY4 R6 DR6 R6 LO12 LOi48 LY/4
One full sett is 260 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| LO | #CC8024 #CC8024 | oklch(66.6% 0.137 65.3) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LO | #D87C00 #D87C00 | oklch(67.3% 0.155 61.8) |
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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
ID: /variants/s10/r2ly20o2ly2r3dr3r3lo6loi24ly2x2lo6614066-loi6715063/