Alaska Highlanders Pipes & Drums 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 BWBKBWBW.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=8433
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2001 Found on http://www.alaskahighlanders.com/alaska-flag-tartan: Captain Cook's own Alaska Highlanders was reformed in 1987 by the late great Pipe Major Iain MacPherson. We are a dedicated pipe band that is open to new discovery and experiences. We have played all over Alaska, Scotland twice and London in 2005. Our band has been represented at the Pipefest in 1995, 2000 and 2005. On August 23, 2005 (when his family and fellow Scots were finally allowed to hold a public funeral and memorial service 700 years to the day after his execution, we had the honor of escorting the spirit of the braveheart Sir William Wallace on his first mile home to Scotland. At the invitation of Clan Wallace Society convienor David Ross provided an Honour Guard with swords and led the funeral procession from the site of his execution thru the streets of London to the London Welsh Center where a Wake was held. The Highlanders wear the Alaska Flag Tartan and our uniforms reflect those worn by those pipers and drummers who sailed with Captain James Cook in 1778, when he discovered Alaska. (State of Alaska)
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
- pre 2001 (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/18 LB54 DB4 K8 DB4 LB20 DB4 W/6
One full sett is 212 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s8/db9lb27db2k4db2lb10db2w3~x2/