Bell's

March 18, 2023 ⌗ Edit this in the TTD

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 GBRBGRGBRBG.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=246

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: 2000 (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: 246
Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4155

Thread count

Y/6 DP8 R24 DP54 Y4 R130 Y4 DP54 R24 DP8 Y/6

One full sett is 632 threads.

Sett

Palette

Colour	Shade	OKLCh
LB	`#B5BBDE` #B5BBDE	oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
DB	`#202060` #202060	oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9)
DB	`#1C0070` #1C0070	oklch(26.3% 0.162 277.1)
R	`#880000` #880000	oklch(39.4% 0.162 29.2)
R	`#901C38` #901C38	oklch(43.2% 0.150 13.1)
R	`#D60020` #D60020	oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
DP	`#3C3C60` #3C3C60	oklch(37.3% 0.061 283.0)
Y	`#8B6E00` #8B6E00	oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

Y/6 DP8 R24 DP54 Y4 R130 Y4 DP54 R24 DP8 Y/6 tartan

Nearest tartan variants

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.

ΔTartan

Threads

Variant

Sett

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632

629

398

Drummond of Megginch - 1997 Kilt

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/y3dp4r12dp27y2r65y2dp27r12dp4y3x2dp1502277-r1606028/