Gordon Miniature
Bands: BKBKGYGKBK · Stripes: DB K DB K DG LY DG K DB K DB K DB K DG LY DG K DB K
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1461
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 1461
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 205
Thread count
B/10 K2 B4 K4 G7 Y2 G7 K4 B10 K/2
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #2C4084 #2C4084 | B #2A418A | 0.01 |
| G | #005020 #005020 | G #006100 | 0.07 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Scottish Airports Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2510. Earliest known date: November 1988 An archetypal Kinloch Anderson blue design. Scottish Tartan Society notes say that Percy Pilcher (an early aviation pioneer 1866 -1899) had connections to the Gunn tartan (his mother was a Robinson). The design is based on that sett using the colours of the British Airports Authority with the purple line added to represent the Scottish thistle. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.77
- Gordon — ΔT 1.03
- Scotsman — ΔT 1.05
- Wilson's No 108 — ΔT 1.09
- Lochinvar Marine Harvest — ΔT 1.15
- Nichol (Personal) — ΔT 1.17
- Rainford (Personal) — ΔT 1.17
- Mariverain — ΔT 1.20
- Cheape of Torosay (Clan) — ΔT 1.23
- Forbo Nairn Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2298. Earliest known date: pre 2002 Designed for Forbo Nairn Ltd - a Swiss based company with two factories in Kirkcaldy, Fife. Tartan is based on the Nairn (#1331) because of an association with Michael Nairn, builder of the first 'floor cloth' (linoleum) factory in Scotland in 1843.STS said Approved by Sir Robert Spencer Nairn. Blue and red used in this graphic in place of dark blue and red so that sett could be seen. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.23
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
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