Commonwealth Games 1986
Bands: BWRWKWBRBR · Stripes: DB W R W K W DB R DB R DB W R W K W DB R DB R
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=723
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1985 — Commonwealth Games 1986 (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1985 — Commonwealth Games 1986 (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 723
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 655
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 655
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
DBa/24 W8 R24 W12 K8 W24 DBa40 R8 DBa12 R/8

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | B #2A418A | 0.14 |
| DBa | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| DR | #880000 #880000 | R #CC0000 | 0.15 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| N | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Commonwealth, Games 1986 — ΔT 0.45
- Westgaard Ladies' (Personal) — ΔT 1.02
- Unidentified #55 — ΔT 1.11
- Poulter Tron — ΔT 1.20
- Investors Group — ΔT 1.27
- Edinburgh, City of — ΔT 1.34
- Laval Dress, Tartan de — ΔT 1.35
- Poulter, Pink (Corporate) — ΔT 1.37
- Lunch with an Old Bag (Fundraising Committee) — ΔT 1.37
- Poulter SG 102 (Fashion) — ΔT 1.38
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.
ID: /setts/s10/db6w2r6w3k2w6db10r2db3r2~x4/