Bracken
Bands: RBYBYBRBY · Stripes: R T LY DB LY DB R DB LY R T LY DB LY DB R DB LY
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=330
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1951 — Bracken (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1951 — Bracken (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 330
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1449
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1449
Thread count
R/8 B6 Y52 DBa8 Y4 DBa10 R6 DBa18 Y/10

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | B #2A418A | 0.23 |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| DBa | #202060 #202060 | B #2A418A | 0.11 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Bracken — ΔT 0.49
- Burns Battalion (Fashion) — ΔT 0.78
- Unidentified (ex Tony Murray) — ΔT 1.08
- Hughes (USA) (Name) — ΔT 1.20
- Hannay Dress (Dance) — ΔT 1.23
- Wilbers #2 (Personal) — ΔT 1.25
- Braemar or Blair Atholl Trade Tartan Tartan Number: 1741. Earliest known date: 1984 Nothing See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.26
- Dunbarton — ΔT 1.29
- Loch Sween — ΔT 1.30
- Loch Sween — ΔT 1.30
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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