Batten of Argyll (Baddenach)
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 BKGBGGKB.
Part of the Batten of Argyll tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=229
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2003 — Batten of Argyll (Baddenach) (register-of-tartans, record)
The Baddenach family originally emigrated from Argyll, Scotland, to Jamestown, Virginia. This tartan can be worn by all of the name or its anglicised variants (Batten, Batton, Battin, Badden etc). It is also to serve as the official tartan for the St Andrews Legion/St Andrews Legion Pipes & Drums headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, whose founder is the designer of this tartan. It may also serve as a tartan for anyone having Scottish ancestors who settled in the Virginia Colony. - 2003 — Batten of Argyll (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
The Baddenach family originally emigrated from Argyll, Scotland to Jamestown, Virginia. This can be worn by all of the name or its anglicised variants (Batton, Battin, Badden etc). It is also to serve as the official tartan for the St Andrews Legion/St Andrews Legion Pipes & Drums headquartered in Richmond Virginia, whose founder is the designer of this tartan. It may also serve as a tartan for anyone having Scottish ancestors who settled in the Virginia Colony.
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
- 2003 (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: 229
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5768
Thread count
DPi/10 K2 DG10 DP30 DG30 DGi55 K4 DR/8
One full sett is 280 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #003820 #003820 | oklch(30.0% 0.070 158.3) |
| DP | #440044 #440044 | oklch(27.1% 0.125 328.4) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| DG | #285800 #285800 | oklch(41.0% 0.122 135.8) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| DP | #780078 #780078 | oklch(40.2% 0.185 328.4) |
| B | #466CC8 #466CC8 | oklch(55.1% 0.149 265.0) |
| 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/s8/dpi10k2dg10dp30dg30dgi55k4dr8~dpi1607327-dp1105325-dgi1605139/