Highland Mist Corporate 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 BGBGYGKBYBGBRBBGBGYGKRBRBGBGYGKBGBRBBKBYBGBRB.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 45 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=4585
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2002 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.
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
- 2002 (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
DB/4 G6 DP2 G4 LY2 G4 K4 DP2 LY4 DP6 G2 DP4 R2 DP4 DB4 G6 DP2 G4 LY2 G4 K4 R2 DB4 R2 DB60 G6 DP2 G4 LY2 G4 K2 DP4 G2 DP4 R2 DP4 DB4 K56 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) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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 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/s45/db2g3dp1g2ly1g2k2dp1ly2dp3g1dp2r1dp2db2g3dp1g2ly1g2k2r1db2r1db30g3dp1g2ly1g2k1dp2g1dp2r1dp2db2k28dp1ly2dp3g1dp2r1dp2~x2/