Batten of Argyll Clan Tartan
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 BKGBGGKR.
Part of the Batten of Argyll tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=5768
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2003 The Baddenach family originally emigrated from Argyll, Scotland to Jamestown, Virginia. This 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.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
DPi/10 K2 G10 DP30 DG30 DGi56 K4 R/8
One full sett is 282 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) |
| G | #5C6428 #5C6428 | oklch(48.3% 0.084 116.0) |
| DG | #006818 #006818 | oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0) |
| 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 1.09 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/dpi5k1g5dp15dg15dgi28k2r4x2dpi1607327-g1903114-dp1105325-dgi1806142/