Belfrage
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 BBBGBY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5408
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1997 Based of the Duke of Fife and Spens tartans. Designed by Peter MacDonald in 1997 for the Belfrage Family Society most of whom live in Sweden. The family came from Fife where the name is a variation of Beveridge. It appears to have completely died out in Scotland.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1997 — Belfrage (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Peter MacDonald in 1997 for the Belfrage Family Society most of whom live in Sweden. Based on the Duke of Fife and Spens tartans. The family came from Fife where the name is a variation of Beveridge. - 1997 — Belfrage Swedish Family 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
- 1997 (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: 5408
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3672
Thread count
DB/44 N10 DP18 G28 DB20 LO/4
One full sett is 200 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) |
| DP | #3C0014 #3C0014 | oklch(22.8% 0.091 8.2) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| DP | #64008C #64008C | oklch(38.5% 0.193 311.3) |
| 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/s6/db22n5dp9g14db10lo2x2dp0904014/