Brehat (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 GBRWBBKWBGW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=348
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2006 Renaud Brehat designed this tartan to wear as a kilt to the wedding of his parents. He added these words,"Hearth and sea is where we came from, Briton first, French colours embraced by Scottish colours remembered auld alliance."
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2006 — Brehat (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Renaud Brehat designed this tartan to wear to his parents' wedding. Colours: represent hearth and sea, Briton, the French colours are embraced by Scottish colours in memory of the auld alliance. - 2006 — Brehat (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Renaud Brehat designed this tartan to wear as a kilt to the wedding of his parents. He added these words,"Hearth and sea is where we came from, Briton first, French colours embraced by Scottish colours remembered auld alliance." - 2006 — Brehat Personal 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
- 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: 348
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7245
Thread count
G/30 DP4 R6 W6 DB6 DP3 K14 W14 DB50 G50 W/2
One full sett is 338 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s11/g30dp4r6w6db6dp3k14w14db50g50w2/