Hughes Interconnection Int.
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 KGGBGBKWKBGBGGKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 16 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1781
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2003 — Hughes Interconnection Int. (register-of-tartans, record)
Requested name is Hughes Interconnection International. A modification of Hughes Personal tartan #2599 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference). Designed as a family tartan for all of the name HUGHES but only available through Grace Hughes. - 2003 — Hughes Interconnection Int. (Pers) (tartans-authority, record)
Requested name is Hughes Interconnection International. A modification of Hughes Personal tartan #2599. Designed a s a family tartan for all of the name HUGHES but only available through Grace Hughes on hughesj204@aol.com. 2nd March 2004).
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
- 2003 (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: 1781
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6037
Thread count
O/4 K2 DG36 DY52 T36 Y8 T36 K4 W8 K4 T36 Y8 T36 DY52 DG36 K/2
One full sett is 714 threads.

Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| B | #466CC8 #466CC8 | oklch(55.1% 0.149 265.0) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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
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