Unidentified B'gowrie Unknown Tartan
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 GGGGGKBRBKGGGGG.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2144
Provenance
Earliest known date: c. 1945 Do you recognise this tartan. It was discovered by Robin Birch of Connell Reid Kiltmakers in Blairgowrie, attached to a Teddy Bear that he thought had a regimental connection dating from 1945. The unidentified sample was recorded here on 2nd February, 1995.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- c. 1945 — Unidentified B'gowrie Unknown Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Unidentified (Teddy Bear) (register-of-tartans, record)
Was discovered by Robin Birch of Connell Reid Kiltmakers in Blairgowrie, attached to a Teddy Bear that he thought had a regimental connection dating from 1945. The unidentified sample was recorded with the Scottish Tartans Society on 2nd February, 1995. - undated — Unidentified, B'gowrie (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- c. 1945 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 4274
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2174
Thread count
G/60 Y4 G10 Y4 G8 K30 DB58 R4 DB58 K30 G10 Y4 G8 Y4 G/34
One full sett is 558 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s15/g30y2g5y2g4k15db29r2db29k15g5y2g4y2g17~x2/