Bannockbane Light Blue
Bands: BBBBWBBB · Stripes: DB T DB T W T DB T DB T DB T W T DB T
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=202
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1984 — Bannockbane Light Blue (register-of-tartans, record)
- undated — Bannockbane Trade Tartan Tartan Number: 27. Earliest known date: 1984 A fashion pattern originating the early 1970s. Other variants of the design including this one appeared up to 1984. No place or family of the name is known and the pattern has no association with Bannockburn, or famous battle of 1314. Donald Broun may have been a designer with Edinburgh Woollen Mills. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 202
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 27
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 27
Thread count
B/4 DB4 B30 W20 B2 DB30 B4 DB/4

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #2888C4 #2888C4 | B #2A418A | 0.21 |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Bannockbane — ΔT 1.03
- Thorburn #1 (Name) — ΔT 1.04
- Halesowen (District) — ΔT 1.21
- Kildonan Blue (Fashion) — ΔT 1.22
- Bannockbane Blue #2 — ΔT 1.30
- Conquergood — ΔT 1.34
- (1) Abercrombie — ΔT 1.38
- Thorburn (1992) — ΔT 1.41
- Eildon/Longniddry Blue Dress Fashion Tartan Tartan Number: 4799. Earliest known date: 01/01/1980 A Dancers' Fancy from Dalgliesh. This appears under three different names - Longniddry #5486, Eildon #4799 and Harmony Eildon #87 (original Scottish Tartans Authority references). Needs resolving. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Dalgety Collection. /Threadcount and colours aren't 100% original. Generated manually./ See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.41
- Keela (Corporate) — ΔT 1.44
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
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