Highland Mist
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 BGBGYGBBYBGBRBBGBGYGBRBRBGBGYGBBGBRBBBBYBGBRB.
Part of the Highland Mist tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 45 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1712
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/08/2002 — Highland Mist (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Claire Donaldson of House of Edgar for Harrisons of Hamilton for their sole use in their retail outlet and kilt hire operation. Very difficult to match colours. The black shown here should be a very dark blue verging on black. What is dark ruby here should be magenta. - 2002 — Highland Mist (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. Designed by Claire Donaldson of House of Edgar for Harrisons of Hamilton for their sole use in their retail outlet and kilt hire operation. Very difficult to match colours. The black shown here should be a very dark blue verging on black. What is dark ruby here should be magenta.
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
- 01/08/2002 (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: 1712
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4585
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2753
Thread count
DB/4 G6 DP2 G4 LY2 G4 DT4 DP2 LY4 DP6 G2 DP4 R2 DP4 DB4 G6 DP2 G4 LY2 G4 DT4 R2 DB4 R2 DB60 G6 DP2 G4 LY2 G4 DT2 DP4 G2 DP4 R2 DP4 DB4 DT56 DP2 LY4 DP6 G2 DP4 R2 DP/4
One full sett is 520 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
ID: /variants/s45/db2g3dp1g2ly1g2dt2dp1ly2dp3g1dp2r1dp2db2g3dp1g2ly1g2dt2r1db2r1db30g3dp1g2ly1g2dt1dp2g1dp2r1dp2db2dt28dp1ly2dp3g1dp2r1dp2~x2/