Border Union Cattle Show
Bands: BKGKRKGKWR · Stripes: DR K G K O K G K W O DR K G K O K G K W O
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5333
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1994 — Border Union Cattle Show (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1994 — Border Union Cattle Show (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 5333
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3715
Thread count
DO/14 LN44 K20 G28 K2 DO4 K2 G28 K8 DR/40

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DG | #003014 #003014 | G #006100 | 0.17 |
| DO | #B84C00 #B84C00 | R #CC0000 | 0.08 |
| DR | #4C0C28 #4C0C28 | B #2A418A | 0.20 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #000000 #000000 | K #000000 | 0.00 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| N | #B0B0B0 #B0B0B0 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.18 |
| T | #783C10 #783C10 | R #CC0000 | 0.17 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Palmer, Edward — ΔT 1.08
- Bowie — ΔT 1.16
- Johnson, J.M. — ΔT 1.23
- MacDuff, dress — ΔT 1.28
- Unidentified #27 — ΔT 1.28
- Hamilton of Brandon — ΔT 1.30
- Forbes - 1970 (WCWM #1) — ΔT 1.30
- MacDuff Dress #2 — ΔT 1.30
- Borthwick — ΔT 1.32
- National Trust Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2117. Earliest known date: pre 1991 Sent in by Tweedmill for information. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.33
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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