British Airways (Corporate)
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 WBRRBWRWRWRWGGY.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3617
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1996 — British Airways (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Peter MacDonald exclusively for British Airways who own the rights and control the pattern. Benyhone or Benchonzie to give it its proper name, is a hill close to Crieff in Scotland where P.McD lives. This tartan was applied to the tailfins of various BA aircraft for a period and then - apparently summarily removed - when the Prime Minister of the day - Margaret Thatcher - passed some scathing criticism of it. - undated — British Airways (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Peter MacDonald exclusively for British Airways who own the rights and control the pattern. This tartan was applied to the tailfins of various BA aircraft for a period.
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
- 1996 (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 Register of Tartans: 4848
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3617
Thread count
LY/4 G4 DG40 LB4 R4 LB4 R20 LB4 R4 LB4 DB40 Ri4 R2 DB4 W/2
One full sett is 282 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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 | #CC4438 #CC4438 | oklch(57.7% 0.174 28.7) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
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/ly2g2dg20lb2r2lb2r10lb2r2lb2db20ri2r1db2w1x2r2109032-ri2307033/