South Australian Pipes & Drums
In pattern BYBRBYBRBY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3842
Also known as
This cloth is also recorded under:
- South Australian Pipes & Drums Australian
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/07/2003 — South Australian Pipes & Drums (register-of-tartans, record)
- undated — South Australian Pipes & Drums Australian Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 5890. Earliest known date: July 2003 Woven by Elliot Fine Fabric of Selkirk. A noticeable tartan for the South Australia Pipes & Drums who performed in the Edinburgh Tattoo in 2003 with their tartan. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3842
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5890
Thread count
DB/120 Y12 DB22 R50 DB22 Y12 DB22 R50 DB22 Y/12

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | G #006100 | 0.15 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Coronation (1936) #2 — ΔT 0.96
- Coronation — ΔT 1.14
- O'Long (Personal) — ΔT 1.15
- Frame — ΔT 1.16
- Bon Accord Corporate Com Tartan Tartan Number: 2229. Earliest known date: 1995 Designed by Michael King of Philip King Ltd. A tartan for the City of Aberdeen. Approved by the City council, launched at the Aberdeen Highland Games in June 1995. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.23
- MacQueen variant — ΔT 1.24
- Orlando Fire Department (Corporate) — ΔT 1.25
- Edinburgh TIC (Corporate) — ΔT 1.31
- Edinburgh Marketing — ΔT 1.32
- BC Corps of Commissionaires, The — ΔT 1.33
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14299 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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