Beaufort (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 BWRWRWRKRKRKWBRKRK.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3669
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 2002 — Beaufort (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Fraser & Kirkbright say (Sept 2002) it was made for Aljean. Phil Smith says (Feb 2010) that it was for the Beaufort family. Fraser Kirkbright (the successors to WCWM) say they have no claim to any of the old WCWM tartans so this one could legitimately be looked upon as a tartan for all Beaufort.s Aljean - women's clothes retailer in Vancouver Canada traded under Aljean name from 1950-2012. - undated — Beaufort (register-of-tartans, record)
Reported by Fraser & Kirkbright in September 2002 to have been made for Aljean.
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
- pre 2002 (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: 5238
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3669
Thread count
T/6 LB16 O4 LB4 O4 LB4 O16 K4 O4 K4 O4 K16 LB4 T48 O4 K4 O2 K/6
One full sett is 296 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
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/s18/k3o1k2o2t24lb2k8o2k2o2k2o8lb2o2lb2o2lb8t3~x2/