Irving of Bonshaw Tower (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 BGBGBY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1860
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1993 April 1993. Designed by Dr. J. Bruce Irving -- a colour variation of Irvine (733) - and regarded as a Personal tartan, not to be confused with the Clan/Family tartan 'Irving of Bonshaw' (2609) which predates this.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1992 — Irving of Bonshaw Tower (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
April 1993. Designed by Dr. J. Bruce Irving - a colour variation of Irvine #733, (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) - and regarded as a Personal tartan, not to be confused with the Clan/Family tartan 'Irving of Bonshaw' #2609, (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) which predates this. - 1993 — Irving of Bonshaw Tower (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
April 1993. Designed by Dr. J. Bruce Irving -- a colour variation of Irvine (733) - and regarded as a Personal tartan, not to be confused with the Clan/Family tartan 'Irving of Bonshaw' (2609) which predates this. - 1993 — Irving of Bonshaw Tower 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
- 1992 (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: 1860
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2490
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2490
Thread count
DR/4 G6 DB4 G28 DB28 LR/4
One full sett is 140 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
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/dr2g3db2g14db14lr2~x2/