Heather Isle
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 BBBGYBBBYGBBBG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1647
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2006 Designed in September 2005 for Lochcarron's new range and woven in several different qualities for kilts, ladies' skirts and scarves. The original count from Lochcarron stipulated light blue in place of this green but the woven sample used green so the count has been changed. It may be that the green version is meant to be 'weathered.'
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/09/2006 — Heather Isle (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed in September 2005 for Lochcarron's new range and woven in several different qualities for kilts, ladies' skirts and scarves. - 2006 Sept. — Heather Isle (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed in September 2005 for Lochcarron's new range and woven in several different qualities for kilts, ladies' skirts and scarves. The original count from Lochcarron stipulated light blue in place of this green but the woven sample used green so the count has been changed. It may be that the green version is meant to be 'weathered.' - 2006 — Heather Isle Weavers 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
- 01/09/2006 (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: 1647
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6902
Thread count
G/160 DB32 DP16 DPi20 G16 LY2 DB12 N2 DB12 LY2 G16 DPi20 DP16 DB/32
One full sett is 524 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DP | #440044 #440044 | oklch(27.1% 0.125 328.4) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| DP | #780078 #780078 | oklch(40.2% 0.185 328.4) |
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/s8/g80db16dp8dpi10g8ly1db6n1x2dp1105325-dpi1607327/