Highland Aircraft
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 KYYRYKYKYKYRYRYRYRYY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 20 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=11006
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
- 10/03/2013 (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: 11006
Thread count
K/4 LOi8 LO10 O4 LO2 K2 LO4 K24 LO4 K2 LO4 O12 LOi14 O6 LO24 O2 LO8 O2 LO24 LOi/2
One full sett is 318 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LO | #D87C00 #D87C00 | oklch(67.3% 0.155 61.8) |
| LO | #DC943C #DC943C | oklch(72.3% 0.133 67.9) |
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/s20/k2loi4lo5o2lo1k1lo2k12lo2k1lo2o6loi7o3lo12o1lo4o1lo12loi1x2loi2905070-lo2706066/