Banause-Zunft zu Olte
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 GGBBBGGBBWG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=189
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/05/2006 — Banause-Zunft zu Olte (register-of-tartans, record)
'Banause-Zunft zu Olte' translates as 'the Philistines' Guild from Olten'. The club was formed in 1964 in Olten, Switzerland. Whilst Banause translates as philistine, it should be interpreted as 'fuddy-duddy' or 'pompous'. The club looks upon itself as an extended family that undertakes charitable works, satirical reviews and the odd drink. - 2006 May — Banause-Zunft zu Olte (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Banause-Zunft zu Olte translates as the Philistines' Guild from Olten and the explanation is that this was formed in 1964 in Olten - a town in central Switzerland. Whilst Banause translates as philistine, it's really a humorous and exaggerated way of saying fuddy-duddy or pompous. Zunft means 'Guild' and the club tends to look upon itself as a large self-supporting family that undertakes charitable works, satirical reviews and the odd drink.
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
- 01/05/2006 (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: 189
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6935
Thread count
Y/4 DG8 DB2 DR6 DB6 DG6 G2 DR64 DB28 W6 Y/4
One full sett is 264 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/y2dg4db1dr3db3dg3g1dr32db14w3y2~x2/