Burns Check
Bands: GGGWKWKWKW · Stripes: Y G Y W K W K W K W Y G Y W K W K W K W
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=449
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 449
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1736
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1736
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
Ta/8 Ga8 Ta8 Wa8 K16 Wa16 K16 Wa16 K16 Wa/16

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DO | #C04C08 #C04C08 | R #CC0000 | 0.08 |
| DOa | #B84C00 #B84C00 | R #CC0000 | 0.08 |
| DR | #880000 #880000 | R #CC0000 | 0.15 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| Ga | #408060 #408060 | G #006100 | 0.14 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| T | #4C3428 #4C3428 | B #2A418A | 0.17 |
| Ta | #7C5400 #7C5400 | G #006100 | 0.15 |
| Tb | #98481C #98481C | R #CC0000 | 0.11 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
| Wa | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Burns Check Trade Tartan Tartan Number: 1736. Earliest known date: 1959 Number of black stripes is not fixed. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.47
- Burns Check (District) — ΔT 0.78
- Scott, Sir Walter #3 — ΔT 0.81
- Glen Flesk — ΔT 0.82
- Robert, Burns check — ΔT 0.84
- Glen Flesk — ΔT 0.92
- Unidentified Arisaid #2 — ΔT 1.19
- Scott, Sir Walter - 1971 (Fashion) — ΔT 1.23
- Burns Heritage Check — ΔT 1.28
- Scott, Sir Walter #2 — ΔT 1.30
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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