Highland Spring (1997)
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 BGRGRG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1721
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1997 Tartan Society notes say "Second tartan for Highland Spring. It is a straight substitution of colours in the original sett (#130). On the relaunch of their packaging a second tartan was needed. It had been found that the 'green' image of the Highlands carried in tartan, increased their product's competitiveness."
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1996 — Highland Spring (1997) (register-of-tartans, record)
Tartan Society notes say 'Second tartan for Highland Spring. It is a straight substitution of colours in the original sett (#130, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference). On the relaunch of their packaging a second tartan was needed. It had been found that the 'green' image of the Highlands carried in tartan, increased their product's competitiveness.' The tartan was produced for the launch of their new packaging. - 1997 — Highland Spring (Green) Corporate Prom 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
- 1996 (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: 1721
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2322
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2322
Thread count
G/46 R6 G14 R6 G46 DP/14
One full sett is 204 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s6/g23r3g7r3g23dp7~x2/