Sea Dog Bamse, Pride of Norway
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 BYBRWRWRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5809
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2008 — Sea Dog Bamse, Pride of Norway (register-of-tartans, record)
Bamse was a Norwegian St Bernard dog that had escaped to Scotland, accompanying his master, the captain of who captained the Norwegian minesweeper KNM Thorodd. In 2008 Scottish authors Angus Whitson and Andrew Orr wrote a book on his exploits and designed this tartan to commemorate his life and work.The symbolism of the Sea Dog Bamse tartan is inspired principally by the colours of Norway's national flag and ensign of the Royal Norwegian Navy. Red for blood, the Viking colour, blue for the ocean and white for the snow. Those colours are mirrored in the Scottish Saltire, the Scottish national flag and in the Royal Standard of Scotland which is a red lion rampant on a gold field - Gold, also represented in the Royal Standard, is priceless, as is the value of Freedom, the gift which Bamse fought and died for. The heraldic colours of Nordkapp or North Cape, identifying Bamse's hometown of Honningsvag, are represented in Red and Gold. The heraldic crest of the Royal Burgh of Montrose is a red rose with the motto (in Latin) "Mare ditat, Rosa decorat" The Sea dictates, the Rose adorns.The ensigns armorial of the City of Dundee are: "Azure, a pot of three growing lilies Argent", Three silver (white) lilies on a blue field.The tartan has been designed with the four colours of red, blue, white and gold which unite the countries and places with which Sea Dog Bamse is associated. We hope that Norwegians will adopt and wear the new tartan which honours the life of a truly remarkable wartime canine hero, whose memory remains bright in Scotland and Norway. - Dec. 2008 — Sea Dog Bamse (Commemorative) (tartans-authority, record)
Bamse was a Norwegian St Bernard dog that had escaped to Scotland, accompanying his master, the captain of who captained the Norwegian minesweeper KNM Thorodd. In 2008 Scottish authors Angus Whitson and Andrew Orr wrote a book on his exploits and designed this tartan to commemorate his life and work. The symbolism of the Sea Dog Bamse tartan is inspired principally by the colours of Norway's national flag and ensign of the Royal Norwegian Navy. Red for blood, the Viking colour, blue for the ocean and white for the snow. Those colours are mirrored in the Scottish Saltire, the Scottish national flag and in the Royal Standard of Scotland which is a red lion rampant on a gold field - Gold, also represented in the Royal Standard, is priceless, as is the value of Freedom, the gift which Bamse fought and died for. The heraldic colours of Nordkapp or North Cape, identifying Bamse's hometown of Honningsvag, are represented in Red and Gold. The heraldic crest of the Royal Burgh of Montrose is a red rose with the motto (in Latin) "Mare ditat, Rosa decorat" The Sea dictates, the Rose adorns. The ensigns armorial of the City of Dundee are "Azure, a pot of three growing lilies Argent" Three silver (white) lilies on a blue field. The tartan has been designed with the four colours of red, blue, white and gold which unite the countries and places with which Sea Dog Bamse is associated. We hope that Norwegians will adopt and wear the new tartan which honours the life of a truly remarkable wartime canine hero, whose memory remains bright in Scotland and Norway.
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
- 2008 (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: 5809
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7858
Thread count
DB/6 LY4 DB64 R56 W4 R4 W4 R4 W/6
One full sett is 292 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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.
ΔTartan
Threads
Variant
Sett
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292
204
276
284
276
358
358
222
338
140
250
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/s9/db3ly2db32r28w2r2w2r2w3~x2/