Tennessee State (US State)

In pattern RBWBGRGBGW.

This was sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 10 stripes tartan.

Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/3067/

Attestations

This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.

• 1999 — Tennessee State (US State) (tartans-authority, record)
• undated — Tennessee State (register-of-tartans, record)

Thread count

LN/4 G48 DB4 G28 R4 G4 DB4 LN4 DB48 R/8

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. Rowan — ΔT 0.57
2. Tennessee State American District Tartan Tartan Number: 3067. Earliest known date: 1999 Official state tartan recorded at the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, 1999. This ties in with the tartan displayed on the Tennessee Highland Game website. Colour choice explained as follows: Green for Agriculture; Blue for the Smoky Mountains; Purple for the State Flower the Iris; Red for Sacrifices of Veterans and Pioneers of the Volunteer State; White to symbolize the 3 Grand Divisions of the State of Tennessee. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.65
3. Leatherneck U.S.Marine Corps Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 975. Earliest known date: 1986 Designed by Madam Leask and the Scottish Tartans Society Accredited in 1981. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.66
4. Leatherneck — ΔT 0.75
5. U.S. Marine Corps (Military?) — ΔT 0.84
6. Rowan Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2067. Earliest known date: 1990 Designed for Mr Robert Rowan. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.87
7. US Marine Corps — ΔT 0.88
8. MacOrrell Family Tartan Tartan Number: 672. Earliest known date: Date unknown The MacOrrell tartan has similarities with the MacDonald, Lord of the Isles sett, which may point a connection with the name MacDonnell or MacDonald. The name Orr was used by a sept of the MacGregors and also of the Campbells of Argyll, suggesting that the root of the name originated in the Lochaber and Argyll districts. There is an undated sample of the tartan in the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.90
9. Stewart of Appin 2 — ΔT 0.92
10. Greenways Marketing Intl — ΔT 0.97

Neighbour map

Every grey dot is one of 15726 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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