Burnicle (2015)

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 KGKBKR.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=11273

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 12/12/2014 — Burnicle (2015) (register-of-tartans, record)
    This tartan represents the British Military service of Burnicle family members who have died or have now relocated around the Commonwealth. Colours: green is for the Army; blue is for the Royal Navy; red is for blood spilt; black is for the earth they are buried in and to remember them by. May be worn by all with the Burnicle surname.
  • 2015 — Burnicle (2015) (tartans-authority, record)
    This tartan represents the British Military service of Burnicle family members who have died or have now relocated around the Commonwealth. Colours: green is for the Army; blue is for the Royal Navy; red is for blood spilt; black is for the earth they are buried in and to remember them by. May be worn by all with the Burnicle surname.
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
12/12/2014 (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

R/56 K28 DB56 K28 G56 K/28

One full sett is 420 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)

Sample pattern

R/56 K28 DB56 K28 G56 K/28 tartan

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

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