Irn Bru
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 YBKWBWBY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1856
Provenance
Earliest known date: Sep 1998 Irn Bru (Iron Brew) was first produced in 1901 by A.G. Barr and has been Scotland's favourite fizzy drink ever since. The colours are based on the brand label. Irn Bru was famously advertised on TV as 'being made in Scotland . . . from GIRDERS!" which was the subject of a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority because it was 'untrue' !!!
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/08/1997 — Irn Bru (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed in 1969 as the Barr tartan, designed by Howe design. In 1996/97 it was redesigned by Kinloch Anderson and the name was changed to Irn Bru. It was registered with the Scottish Tartans Society on 12th September 1997. Irn Bru (Iron Brew) was first produced in 1901 by AG Barr. The colours are based on the brand label. A limited range of products in it are available at www.agbarr.co.uk and tartan by the yard is available from Kinloch Anderson. - Sep 1998 — Irn Bru (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Irn Bru (Iron Brew) was first produced in 1901 by A.G. Barr and has been Scotland's favourite fizzy drink ever since. The colours are based on the brand label. Irn Bru was famously advertised on TV as 'being made in Scotland . . . from GIRDERS!" which was the subject of a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority because it was 'untrue' !!! This tartan started life in 1969 as the Barr tartan, designed by Howe Design, and used foir the launch of the Irn Bru in England. In 1985 it was adopoyed by Michael Barr for all Irn Bru export packs. In 1988 it was used on all flavours for the export market. In 1996/97 it was redesigned by Kinloch Anderson with the red changed to orange and the name was changed to irn Bru and it was registered with the STS on 12th September 1997. A limited range of products in it are available at www.agbarr.co.uk and tartan by the yard is available from Kinoloch Anderson. - Sep 1998 — Irn Bru Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 01/08/1997 (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: 1856
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2395
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2395
Thread count
LO/98 DB32 K4 W6 DB4 W4 DB6 LO/4
One full sett is 214 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/lo49db16k2w3db2w2db3lo2~x2/