Bell of Ardbel (Personal)
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 BBBBBGBGWG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=242
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/12/1994 — Bell of Ardbel (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
The name of this tartan was changed to John Bell by the Scottish Tartans Society in 1999, against the wishes of the owner. The reason given being that it would be confused with Bell of the Borders (STR #243) or Border Bell (STR #244). The Scottish Tartans Authority re-instated the original name in May 2004. Other Bells can wear this tartan if they wish and it can be purchased from Mr John Bell (May 2004). - Dec. 1994 — Bell of Ardbel (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Other Bells can wear this tartan but they will need to source it for themselves. The name of the tartan was changed to John Bell by the Scottish Tartans Society in 1999 against the wishes of the owner. The reason given being that it would be confused with Bell of the Borders (#1489) or Border Bell (#370). The Scottish Tartans Authority re-instated the original name in May 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
- 01/12/1994 (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: 242
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2613
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2613
Thread count
DO/14 DR8 DO8 DR50 DP2 G64 DP8 G4 W4 G/10
One full sett is 320 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DO | #412714 #412714 | oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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/s10/do7dr4do4dr25dp1g32dp4g2w2g5~x2/