Scottish Foundation VA Highlands
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 BGYBBGBYBBBBBBBYBGBBYG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 22 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3717
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/03/2006 — Scottish Foundation VA Highlands (register-of-tartans, record)
Based on the MacCallum, it was designed by four members of the Scottish Foundation of the Virginia Highlands (SFVH) - Jean Oxley (also the weaver), Elberta Raisbeck, Anne Sampson and SFVH President Charlene Dixon Hutcheson. The SFVH is an educational and cultural organisation based in Roanoke, Virginia and the tartan celebrates the area's Scottish ancestors and reflects the strength of character found in the Blue Ridge Mountains which has helped to preserve cultural aspects of the original Scottish and Scots-Irish settlers. The tartan is primarily for the use of members of the Scottish Foundation of the Virginia Highlands but the copyright holders do not wish to restrict its use if someone else finds it pleasing. - 2006 March — Scottish Foundation VA Highlands (Co (tartans-authority, record)
Based on the MacCallum, it was designed by four members of the Scottish Foundation of the Virginia Highlands (SFVH) - Jean Oxley (also the weaver), Elberta Raisbeck, Anne Sampson and SFVH President Charlene Dixon Hutcheson. The SFVH is an educational and cultural organisation based in Roanoke, Virginia and the tartan celebrates the area's Scottish ancestors and reflects the strength of character found in the Blue Ridge Mountains which has helped to preserve cultural aspects of the original Scottish and Scots-Irish settlers. The tartan is primarily for the use of members of the Scottish Foundation of the Virginia Highlands but the copyright holders do not wish to restrict its use if someone else finds it pleasing.
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
- 01/03/2006 (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: 3717
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6891
Thread count
DP/10 Y4 LR72 DB6 DBi6 Y4 DP8 LR6 T4 DBi6 DB6 DBi6 DB6 DBi6 T4 LR6 DP8 Y4 DBi6 DB6 LR72 Y/4
One full sett is 506 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | oklch(61.7% 0.067 235.0) |
| DB | #202060 #202060 | oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9) |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| LR | #A0A0A0 #A0A0A0 | oklch(70.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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/s12/dp5y2lr36db3dbi3y2dp4lr3t2dbi3db3dbi3x2lr2800000-db1204274-dbi1406275-t2503227/