Bennet
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 RBRBRBRWRWR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4949
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- Before 2002 — Bennet (register-of-tartans, record)
Design very similar to Bennet Dress with the white/grey ground replaced with red (crimson). Reported by Fraser & Kirkbright in September 2002 to have been made for Aljean. - pre 2002 — Bennet (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
This is Bennet Dress with the white/grey ground replaced with red. (Crimson). Fraser & Kirkbright say (Sept 2002) it was made for Aljean. Aljean - women's clothes retailer in Vancouver Canada traded under Aljean name from 1950-2012.
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
- Before 2002 (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: 4949
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3680
Thread count
R/128 DB36 R4 DB6 R4 DB6 R28 LB16 R4 LB8 R/4
One full sett is 356 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) |
| M | #CA047B #CA047B | oklch(55.0% 0.225 353.8) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/r64db18r2db3r2db3r14lb8r2lb4r2~x2/