Benyon of Wales (Name)
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 BKGBKBGBGBGBGGK.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5735
Provenance
Earliest known date: Unknown Designed for surnames Enyon and Benyon at The Wales Tartan Centre in Cardiff, by Sheila Daniel of Cambrian Woollen Mill, Powys. They are unusual in that almost all of them incorporate odd numbered threads and have quite different warp and weft, both in thread numbers and sometimes colours. There is no known tradition of tartan in Wales.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- Unknown — Benyon of Wales (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed for The Wales Tartan Centre in Cardiff (01792 301144) by Sheila Daniel of Cambrian Woollen Mill, Powys, (01591 610473) they're unusual in that almost all of them incorporate odd numbered threads and have quite different warp & weft, both in thread numbers and sometimes colours. Welsh Tartan Centre 01792 301144 Despite there being no known tradition of tartan in Wales, this is one of a series of commercial Welsh 'name' tartans marketed by the Wales Tartan Centre in Cardiff. Their inclusion in this Index does not confer upon them ANY historical or genealogical credibility and the use of the words 'of Wales' is not of conventional territorial significance but is purely to identify the source and thus avoid confusion with the same surnames from countries other than Wales. - undated — Benyon Welsh Name Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- Unknown (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 Tartans Authority (ITI): 5735
Thread count
DB/44 K2 DG6 DB12 K2 DB12 DG6 DB8 DG14 DB22 Y2 DB22 DG14 Y4 K/8
One full sett is 304 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | oklch(30.0% 0.070 158.3) |
| DG | #285800 #285800 | oklch(41.0% 0.122 135.8) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s15/db22k1dg3db6k1db6dg3db4dg7db11y1db11dg7y2k4x2dg1605139/