Haig & Haig Whisky
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 KRKGKRKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1568
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1979 For Messrs John Haig.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1979 — Haig & Haig Whisky (register-of-tartans, record)
From Johnstons of Elgin. Samples in Scottish Tartans Authority's Dalgety Collection. Count from Scottish Tartans Society documentation circa 1981. For Messrs John Haig Whisky Distillers - 1979 — Haig & Haig Whisky (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
From Johnstons of Elgin. Samples in STA Dalgety Collection. Count from STS documentation circa 1981. The brand is now (Jan. 2008) owned by Diageo and they confirmed by e-mail (5th Feb 2008) that they still retained the exclusive rights to it. - 1979 — Haig Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 1979 (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: 1568
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1609
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1609
Thread count
R/52 K36 R14 K8 Y8 K8 R14 K/36
One full sett is 264 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s5/r26k18r7k4y4~x2/