Bundanoon
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 BRGBGBGGW.
Part of the Bundanoon tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=438
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 27/11/1999 — Bundanoon (register-of-tartans, record)
Bundanoon is a small town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia. The tartan was designed by Peter Rocca, an estate agent in the town, and launched at the 2000 Brigadoon - Bundanoon Highland Games. Colours: the green background represents the deep green valleys of the Bundanoon area (Bundanoon is an Aboriginal word that means deep green valleys); yellow is the colour of Australian wattle; red is the colour of the Waratah which is also the emblem of Wingecarribee shire, and the parallel lines represents the parallel lines of the railway track, an important feature of Bundanoon; blue is the colour of the wonderful Australian sky and the white represents the mist that is so symbolic of Bundanoon and the Brigadoon story. The annual Bundanoon Highland Gathering sees the town transformed into Brigadoon. It attracts over 20,000 visitors and is a fundraiser for Bundanoon charities and community groups across the Wingecarribee, including the Wingecarribee Rural Fire Service, the State Emergency Service [SES], the St Johns Ambulance Service and the Lions club and local schools. - November 1999 — Bundanoon (District) (tartans-authority, record)
A very small town (pop: 2731 in 1996) in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia. The tartans was launched at the 2000 Brigadoon - Bundanoon Highland Games. The designer of this tartan, Peter Rocca, is an estate agent in the town. The colours in the Bundanoon tartan are a green background which is symbolic of the deep green valleys of the Bundanoon area. Bundanoon is an Aboriginal word that means deep green valleys. The yellow is the colour of Australian wattle. The red is the colour of the Waratah which is also the emblem of Wingecarribee shire, and the parallel lines represents the parallel lines of the railway track, an important feature of Bundanoon. The blue is the colour the Australian sky and the white symbolises the mist that is so symbolic of Bundanoon and the Brigadoon story From the Bundanoon website . . ."Although it attracts so many visitors, Bundanoon is not "over-touristified"; it retains the quiet, sleepy, old-world atmosphere of yesteryear, and is the perfect place to wind down from the hectic pace of modern life (then again, it always was!)". " Even though the mythical Scottish village of Brigadoon is said to appear only once every 100 years, Bundanoon becomes Brigadoon every year in the Bundanoon highland gathering. Even the train station changes its name to "Brigadoon." The festival attracts over 20,000 visitors and is a fundraiser for Bundanoon charities and community groups across the Wingecarribee, including the Wingecarribee Rural Fire Service, the State Emergency Service [SES], the St Johns Ambulance, the Lions club and local schools."
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
- 27/11/1999 (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: 438
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2641
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2641
Thread count
DB/34 R6 G110 DB6 G8 DB6 G8 DY6 W/10
One full sett is 344 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s9/db17r3g55db3g4db3g4dy3w5~x2/