Bute Heather, Autumn (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 BGBKBKBGBKB.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=6175
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 2004 — Bute Heather, Autumn (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
A colour variation of 6883 Bute Heather designed by Ken MacDonald of Houston Kiltmakers, Paisley for his retail and kilt hire business. Inspired by the colours on Bute where four generations of his family have holidayed. Count taken from woven sample and odd threadcounts are accurate. Also available from Houston Kilts in various widths of ribbon (7mm to 75mm). - 2004 — Bute Heather, Weathered (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
A colour variation of 6883 Bute Heather designed by Ken MacDonald of Houston Kiltmakers, Paisley for his retail and kilt hire business. Inspired by the colours on Bute where four generations of his family have holidayed. Count taken from woven sample and odd threadcounts are accurate. NEED TO CHANGE COLOURS
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
- 2004 (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 Tartans Authority (ITI): 7181
Thread count
DP/13 Y2 DR38 K13 DR8 K8 DP17 DG2 DP17 K4 DP/11
One full sett is 242 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s11/dp13y2dr38k13dr8k8dp17dg2dp17k4dp11/