Bailies of Bennachie (Corporate)
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 BKBRGBG.
Part of the Bailies of Bennachie tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3628
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- Feb 2003 — Bailies of Bennachie (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Bennachie is a prominent range of hills in Aberdeenshire and the Bailies are individuals who are 'stewards' of the hills. This tartan is a vehicle for attracting funds for conservation and was designed by Blair Urquhart of The House of Tartan and it incorporates the colours of the hill in winter. Sample in STA Collection. Was woven by D C Dalgliesh of Selkirk and then by Strathmore Woollen Co. Ltd, Forfar. - undated — Bailies of Bennachie (register-of-tartans, record)
Bennachie is a prominent range of hills in Aberdeenshire and the Bailies are individuals who are 'stewards' of the hills. This tartan is a vehicle for attracting funds for conservation and was desinged by Blair Urquhart of The House of Tartan and it incorporates the colours of the hill in winter. Was woven by D C Dalgliesh of Selkirk and then by Strathmore Woollen Co Ltd, Forfar.
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
- Feb 2003 (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: 5090
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3628
Thread count
G/54 DR4 G8 R30 DB52 K4 DB/12
One full sett is 262 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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/g27dr2g4r15db26k2db6~x2/