Swiss Red
In pattern RBRWRWRWRW.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5413
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/06/2006 — Swiss Red (register-of-tartans, record)
- June 2006 — Swiss Red (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
LN/72 R36 LN4 R4 LN8 R4 LN4 R36 DB12 R/16

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 #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
| W | #F8F8F8 #F8F8F8 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Bundy, Dress Red (Personal Dance) — ΔT 0.86
- Menzies — ΔT 0.90
- D'Andeville, Xavier (Personal) — ΔT 0.92
- Masai Shuka 14 (Artefact) — ΔT 0.94
- Menzies #3 — ΔT 1.00
- Hose — ΔT 1.07
- Hose Artifact Tartan Tartan Number: 1548. Earliest known date: 1819 New sett for 22 red. (Wilson's of Bannockburn) See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.12
- Hose — ΔT 1.17
- Cunningham Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 563. Earliest known date: c.1980 One of a number of dress tartans produced by Hugh Macpherson, a kiltmaker in Edinburgh, intended for dancing and other informal occassions. The 'dress' version of clan tartan is usually created by substituting white for one of the 'ground' colours. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.17
- d'Andeville, Xavier (Personal) — ΔT 1.17
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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