Brittany National Walking

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 GRYKYKYGW.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=365

Provenance

Earliest known date: 2003 For Richard and Anne-Marie Duclos of Le Coudray-Montceaux, France. Based on the Breton National at 3902. The term Randonnée (Walking) is used in the sense of the Scottish category, Hunting.

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/01/2003 — Brittany National Walking (register-of-tartans, record)
    For Richard and Anne-Marie Duclos of Le Coudray-Montceaux, France. Closely based on the Brittany National at STR #364. There is a club for Breton kilt wearers called the Breizhlander Association which appears to organise a Tartan Day in Paris each year - an inter-Celtic festival with Cornish, Welsh, Irish, Manx and Scottish tartans.
  • 2003 — Brittany Hunting French Fancy Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

LB/8 DY54 LY16 K8 LY16 K8 LY16 O22 Y/6

One full sett is 294 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
LY#DCBC32 #DCBC32oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2)
O#A65C11 #A65C11oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3)
DY#3A2B0D #3A2B0Doklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

LB/8 DY54 LY16 K8 LY16 K8 LY16 O22 Y/6 tartan

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.

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