Hird (Personal)

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 BGKRKBKBKGRBWRKYKRWBRBRYBWBYR.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 29 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2243

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
1996 (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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

DB/8 G8 K40 R10 K8 DR10 K8 DB10 K36 G8 R16 DB4 LB4 R32 K8 LO4 K8 R32 LB4 DB4 R12 DB12 R4 LO4 DB40 LB4 DB40 LO4 R/6

One full sett is 762 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
DR#680028 #680028oklch(33.1% 0.133 8.3)
R#880000 #880000oklch(39.4% 0.162 29.2)
LO#FF9C34 #FF9C34oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)

Sample pattern

DB/8 G8 K40 R10 K8 DR10 K8 DB10 K36 G8 R16 DB4 LB4 R32 K8 LO4 K8 R32 LB4 DB4 R12 DB12 R4 LO4 DB40 LB4 DB40 LO4 R/6 tartan

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.

Hird (Personal)Selkirk, NewMacWatts (Personal)Anderson (W L Anderson, Stirling)MacDonald of Pr Edward Island TartanInnes of Learney Hunting (Personal)Cherry Valley New YorkAnderson 11Scottish Hockey UnionGordonstoungroundcomplexity

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