Highland Cathedral

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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 BGBBBBBBBBBBBBG.

Part of the Highland Cathedral tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1707

Provenance

Earliest known date: pre 2004 Nothing

3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)

01/01/2004 — Highland Cathedral (register-of-tartans, record)
No details known.
pre 2004 — Highland Cathedral (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
pre 2004 — Highland Cathedral Fashion Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)

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: 2004 (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: 1707
Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6136

Thread count

DR/8 G2 DBi44 DB4 DP4 DR2 DP4 DR8 DB2 DP20 DR4 DB40 DP2 DB4 Y/4

One full sett is 292 threads.

The source recorded this cloth as DR/8 G2 DBi44 DB4 DP4 DR2 DP4 DR8 DB2 DP20 DR4 DB40 DP2 DB4 Y4 DB4 DP2 DB40 DR4 DP20 DB2 DR8 DP4 DR2 DP4 DB4 DBi44 G/2 — 574 threads; it folds to the canonical 292-thread sett above.

Sett

Palette

Colour	Shade	OKLCh
DB	`#2C2C80` #2C2C80	oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6)
DB	`#303070` #303070	oklch(34.7% 0.108 279.2)
DR	`#55120C` #55120C	oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3)
G	`#008B2A` #008B2A	oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
R	`#D60020` #D60020	oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
DP	`#4B0B4F` #4B0B4F	oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
Y	`#8B6E00` #8B6E00	oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

DR/8 G2 DBi44 DB4 DP4 DR2 DP4 DR8 DB2 DP20 DR4 DB40 DP2 DB4 Y/4 tartan

ID: /variants/s15/dr4g1dbi22db2dp2dr1dp2dr4db1dp10dr2db20dp1db2y2x2dbi3514276-db3411279/