Pitcairn Heritage (Name)
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 BGRBRBGRGBGBG.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2199
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1994 — Pitcairn Heritage (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Diene Pitcairn Duncan of Huntingdon Valley, PA, 1994. Registered with STS as "Pitcairn Trust Company", 3 July 1994, but nevertheless regarded as a family ("clan") tartan from about 2004 when its name was changed to Pitcairn Heritage. Tartans Society count introduces an azure (A4, Y4, R16, A10, R44, B4, Y4, M44, LG6, B6, LG6, B6, LG6 ) but correct version not known at this stage. See #6727 for a modern hunting version. - 01/01/1995 — Pitcairn Heritage (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Diene Pitcairn Duncan of Huntingdon Valley, PA, 1994. Registered with Scottish Tartans Society as 'Pitcairn Trust Company', 3 July 1994, but nevertheless regarded as a family ('clan') tartan from about 2004 when its name was changed to Pitcairn Heritage. Scottish Tartans Society count introduces an azure (A4, Y4, R16, A10, R44, B4, Y4, M44, LG6, B6, LG6, B6, LG6 ) but correct version not known at this stage.
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
- 1994 (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 Register of Tartans: 3344
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2199
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2199
Thread count
G/6 T8 G6 T8 G6 R56 DY4 T4 Ri56 T12 Ri18 DY4 T/4
One full sett is 374 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| R | #A00000 #A00000 | oklch(44.3% 0.182 29.2) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| R | #C80050 #C80050 | oklch(53.2% 0.213 9.9) |
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/g3t4g3t4g3r28dy2t2ri28t6ri9dy2t2x2r1807033-ri2109013/