Bonnie Prince Charlie (Hudson Bay)
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 WGBGYYWBWYGBWWW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=310
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1997 — Bonnie Prince Charlie (Hudson Bay) (register-of-tartans, record)
A sample of this tartan was sent to the Lord Lyon by the Hudson Bay Company, Canada, who had received it labelled 'Bonny Prince Charlie'. Assumed to be Fashion. - pre 1997 — Bonnie Prince Charlie (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
A sample of this tartan was sent to the Lord Lyon by the Hudson Bay Company of Canada who had received it labelled 'Bonny Prince Charlie'. Assumed to be Fashion.
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
- 1997 (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: 310
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2382
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2382
Thread count
W/18 DY28 DO22 DY6 LY22 LYi14 W2 DO6 W2 LYi14 DY14 DO6 W4 LB4 W/4
One full sett is 310 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DO | #412714 #412714 | oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| DY | #604000 #604000 | oklch(39.8% 0.083 76.8) |
| LY | #E8C000 #E8C000 | oklch(81.9% 0.168 93.7) |
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/w9dy14do11dy3ly11lyi7w1do3w1lyi7dy7do3w2lb2w2x2dy1603076-lyi3307090/