Beartrap (Military)
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 BWBKGGGKBWBWB.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7624
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- April 2008 — Beartrap (Military) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Brian Wilton of the STA for the Patrol & Reconnaissance Wing Eleven of the Airborne ASW - anti-submarine flying wing. Their emblem is a serrated beartrap about to close on a submarine and since their function was similar to the original Black Watch, that tartan was used with just a change of colours to incorporate the the ASW emblem. The Black Watch was raised in Aberfeldy in 1739 for the purpose of 'watching the braes' and the anti submarine flying wing was formed to 'watch the waves.' - undated — Beartrap (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Brian Wilton, Scottish Tartans Authority, for the Patrol & Reconnaissance Wing Eleven of the Airborne Anti-Submarine Flying Wing. Their emblem is a serrated beartrap about to close on a submarine and, since their function was similar to the original Black Watch, the design was based on the Black Watch tartan, with a change of colours to incorporate the the ASW emblem.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- April 2008 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5643
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7624
Thread count
DR/44 LB2 DR4 LB2 DR6 K32 G32 Y2 G32 K32 DR32 LB2 DR/4
One full sett is 404 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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
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/s13/dr22lb1dr2lb1dr3k16g16y1g16k16dr16lb1dr2~x2/