Benson (New England)
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 KBKRYRK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=249
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2004 — Benson (New England) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by the Bensons in Vermont for use by anyone of the name Benson. It has been woven by Molly Manaugh. - pre 2004 — Benson (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by the Bensons of Vermont for use by anyone of the name Benson. Originally Benson was a lowland/Borders name with no tartan of their own. This Benson can be worn by anyone of the name. Weaver Molly Manaugh. The status of this tartan is the same as very many more modern ones that have been designed by those of a particular surname for whom there is no traditional clan/family tartan. In the absence of any clan structure and the consequent absence of agreement from a Chief or even head of family, no such tartan can be regarded as the official tartan for those of that name but a tartan for the applying branch or family of that name which is however, available for all of that surname to wear. Woven sample.
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
- 2004 (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: 249
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6465
Thread count
K/32 T4 K16 R6 LR6 R6 K/16
One full sett is 124 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s7/k16t2k8r3lr3r3k8~x2/