Heritage Plaid
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 RBKYKYKRKRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1696
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1970 — Heritage Plaid (register-of-tartans, record)
Originally called Hilton Champion, this tartan was designed by Kinloch Anderson for the officials and winning jacket for the Hilton-sponsored Heritage Classic golf tournament. The name was changed to Heritage Plaid in September 2000. - 1978 — Heritage Plaid (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Originally called Hilton Champion, this was designed by Kinloch Anderson for wear by the officials of the Hilton-sponsored, Heritage Classic Golf Tournament. The tartan was also used for the Winner's jacket. Name changed in September 2000 to Hilton Plaid. Apparently again changed to Heritage Plaid (Aug 2004).
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Register of Tartans
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
- data date
- 1970 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - 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: 1696
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2336
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2336
Thread count
R/88 DB6 K12 LY4 K4 LY4 K20 R10 K4 R6 W/4
One full sett is 232 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) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/r44db3k6ly2k2ly2k10r5k2r3w2~x2/