Bannockbane Tan
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 BGBGWWGW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=206
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1975 — Bannockbane Tan (register-of-tartans, record)
This is a variation on a trade sett which originated in the early 1970s. Other variants of the design (in different colourways) are included in the Register. - pre 1975 — Bannockbane, Tan (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
The original Bannockbane tartan is relatively modern having been produced in 1984 at a time when the skirt adapted from the traditional men's kilt had reached it's zenith as a popular fashion item. The global demand for kilt skirts highlighted a colour gap in existing established tartans. This led to the creation of this new design in a combination of fawns and browns, which was given a suitably Scottish sounding name avoiding confusion with any other clan or district tartans. The Bannockbane proved to be an exceptionally successful addition to modern tartan collections, which although originally produced as a fashion check, is now generally considered to have earned it's place as a Scottish tartan. In later years the success of this design prompted the emergence of several other colour versions, with Lochcarron producing a Grey/Navy version.
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
- 1975 (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: 206
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 669
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 669
Thread count
DO/8 Y4 DO26 Y2 W26 LB26 Y4 LB/8
One full sett is 192 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) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s8/do4y2do13y1w13lb13y2lb4~x2/