Boys Brigade
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 RGGGBGBGGGW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=328
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2003 Previously marked 'Unidentified' in STS file. No explanation is given for the title which Paton has named as 'B.B. Special Tartan'. This tartan has recently been woven by MacNaughtons of Pitlochry as the result of a request by a unit of the Boys Brigade.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Boys Brigade (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan started life as an unidentified with a title of 'B B Special Tartan' given to it by Patons of Tillicoultry. The tartan has 'recently' been woven by the Macnaughtons Group of Pitlochry (now Perth) at a request from a Boys Brigade unit. - pre 2002 — Boys' Brigade (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
This tartan started life as an unidentified with a title of "B.B. Special Tartan" given to it by Patons of Tillicoultry. The conventional meaning of BB in Scotland is 'Boys Brigade', an alternative to Scouts. The tartan has 'recently' been woven by the Macnaughtons Group of Pitlochry (now Perth) at a request from a Boys Brigade unit. No date or further details known. - pre 2003 — B.B. Special Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — B.B., Special (weddslist, 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
- 2002 (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: 328
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1466
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1466
Thread count
R/6 DG56 G38 DG6 DB38 DG6 DB38 DG6 G38 DG56 W/6
One full sett is 576 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) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| 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/r3dg28g19dg3db19dg3db19dg3g19dg28w3~x2/