Buglass

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 WBYBBBBBBBYBY.

Part of the Buglass tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=435

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/01/1998 — Buglass (register-of-tartans, record)
    Designed by Claire Donaldson of the House of Edgar. For all Buglasses to wear.
  • 1998 — Buglass (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
    Designed by Claire Donaldson of the House of Edgar.
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
1998 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

LO/6 DT2 LO2 DT32 DO4 DT4 DO4 DT6 DO24 DOi52 LY4 DOi6 LB/4

One full sett is 290 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DO#441800 #441800oklch(27.3% 0.076 46.3)
LY#DCBC32 #DCBC32oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2)
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
DT#023535 #023535oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8)
LO#FF9C34 #FF9C34oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8)
DO#4C3428 #4C3428oklch(34.9% 0.040 47.5)

Sample pattern

LO/6 DT2 LO2 DT32 DO4 DT4 DO4 DT6 DO24 DOi52 LY4 DOi6 LB/4 tartan

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