Burns Heritage
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 GKGYGKBKBKGYG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=450
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Burns Heritage (register-of-tartans, record)
From Peter MacArthur & Co Ltd for the Burns Heritage Park Company. The design 'combines colours from the Burns Heritage check with patterns inspired by tartans connected with Burns' legacy - such as the Graham and Ewing patterns.' - 2002 — Burns Heritage (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
From Peter MacArthur & Co Ltd for the Burns Heritage Park Company. The design " . . combines colours from the Burns Heritage check with patterns inspired by tartans connected with Burns' legacy - such as the Graham and Ewing patterns." Feb 2006 - none advertised on the Burns website and enquires reveal very little in stock now - didn't prove popular. Tel No. for the Company is +44 (0) 1292 443 700. Website: www.burnsheritagepark.com.
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
- 2002 (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: 450
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4515
Thread count
DG/50 K26 DG26 LY6 DG26 K26 DR26 K6 DR26 K26 DG26 LY6 DG/2
One full sett is 504 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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/s13/dg25k13dg13ly3dg13k13dr13k3dr13k13dg13ly3dg1~x2/