Bean of Freeport (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 BGBRGRB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=232
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1988 — Bean of Freeport (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Harry Lindley of Kinloch Anderson. Woven to celebrate the 75th anniversary of L L Bean Inc, Freeport, Maine, USA, who are outdoor sporting specialists. The colours represent the MacBain and MacIntosh connections. Very similar to Shaw of Tordarroch - the only difference being the shade of the blue line in the green and the black guards on that blue in the Shaw sett. - January 1988 — Bean of Freeport Htg (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Harry Lindley of Kinloch Anderson as a variant of MacKintosh which turned out to be almost the same as Shaw opf Tordarroch - the only difference being the shade of the blue line in green and the fact that the Shaw sett has black guards on that blue. STS didn't notrice this when it was registered with them Woven by Peter MacArthur & Co Ltd of Hamilton for Kinloch Andreson's US client L.L.Bean Inc. who produced an extensive range of items such as men's shirts, lumber jackets etc., as well as luggage. L. L. Bean is a well known outfitter and mail order store in the United States. Very similar to Shaw of Tordarroch. Sometimes called "Hunting" Bean of Freeport.
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
- 1988 (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: 232
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 106
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 106
Thread count
DBi/6 R15 DG41 R15 DBi20 DG41 DB/6
One full sett is 276 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | oklch(34.5% 0.089 246.0) |
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | oklch(26.3% 0.162 277.1) |
| DB | #202060 #202060 | oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9) |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | oklch(30.0% 0.070 158.3) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| DG | #285800 #285800 | oklch(41.0% 0.122 135.8) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #A8ACE8 #A8ACE8 | oklch(76.3% 0.086 281.2) |
| LB | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | oklch(80.8% 0.000 89.9) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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/s7/db6dg41dbi20r15dg41r15dbi6~db1106275-dbi1404245/