Highland Park HS Pipe Band
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 BWBWBWBWBWGWG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1714
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1940 — Highland Park HS Pipe Band (register-of-tartans, record)
Highland Park High School (Texas) Pipe Band. Formerly woven by Peter Anderson of Galashiels. Tartan is Blue/Green version of MacDonald, Lord of the Isles Hunting with the green changed to yellow. Almost indistinguishable from the Thain Dress tartan (SRT #4099) which swaps black for the blue. - pre 1940 — Highland Park HS Pipe Band (School) (tartans-authority, record)
Highland Park High School (Texas) Pipe Band. Woven by Peter Anderson of Galashiels at one time. Tartan is Blue/Green version of MacDonald, Lord of the Isles Hunting with the green changed to yellow. Thus almost indistinguishable from the Thain #1 tartan (#1256) which swaps black for the blue. Woven sample.
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
- 1940 (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: 1714
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5191
Thread count
Y/88 W4 Y8 W8 DB8 W4 DB56 W4 DB8 W8 DB8 W4 DB/56
One full sett is 384 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s13/y22w1y2w2db2w1db14w1db2w2db2w1db14~x4/