Heddle Clan/Family Tartan
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 BKBGBKBBBKBBBKBBBKBGBKBW.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 24 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=6775
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2003 June Designed by Scott Heddle for his wedding. Grandfather John Robert heddle wrote, "As the oldest surviving member of the Heddle family in Stromness, Orkney, I am, as head of the Clan, proud to sign this note as documentary evidence supporting the application for recording the Heddle Tartan ... which was conceived by my grandson, Scott Heddle, second son of my eldest John Flett Heddle, Stromness, KW16 3DA." Signed, 23rd June 2004. Scott Heddle wore the newly designed tartan at his wedding in St Magnus Cathedral on 28th June 2003, and it was unanimously agreed by all members of the family that this would become the tartan of the Heddle Clan.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 2003 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
DP/24 K4 DB8 DY4 DB8 K4 DB4 DP16 DB4 K4 DB48 DP16 DB48 K4 DB4 DP16 DB4 K4 DB8 DY4 DB8 K4 DP24 W/6
One full sett is 526 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s24/dp12k2db4dy2db4k2db2dp8db2k2db24dp8db24k2db2dp8db2k2db4dy2db4k2dp12w3~x2/