North Berwick (Dance)
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 BRBRGRGRGRW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2342
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1990 Designed by Donald Fraser for the North Berwick Pipe Band dancers for their visit to Maine USA in 1990. The Pipe Band itself normally wears McKenzie.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1990 — North Berwick (Dance) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Donald Fraser for the North Berwick Pipe Band dancers for their visit to Maine USA in 1990. The Pipe Band itself normally wears McKenzie. - 1990 — North Berwick Pipe Band District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/1997 — North Berwick Pipe Band Dancers (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Donald Fraser for the North Berwick Pipe Band dancers for their visit to Maine USA in 1990. The Pipe Band itself normally wears the McKenzie tartan.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 1990 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 3152
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2342
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2342
Thread count
DB/40 R8 DB40 R40 DG8 R8 DG8 R8 DG40 R4 W/8
One full sett is 376 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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.
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/s11/db10r2db10r10dg2r2dg2r2dg10r1w2~x4/