Border Sett
Bands: RGWGWRWRGW · Stripes: R G W G W R W R DY W R G W G W R W R DY W
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=313
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 313
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2458
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2458
Thread count
R/76 G2 Wa32 G18 Wa40 R40 Wa32 R40 T2 Wa/150

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| T | #604000 #604000 | G #006100 | 0.14 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
| Wa | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacGregor Dress Red Fancy Tartan Tartan Number: 6541. Earliest known date: 1975 A Dancers tartan now woven by D C Dalgliesh of Selkirk. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.17
- MacGregor Dress Red (Dance) — ΔT 1.28
- Wilsons' Blanket Pattern (Artefact) — ΔT 1.32
- Unidentified Ross-shire — ΔT 1.34
- Unidentified, Ross-shire — ΔT 1.36
- Unidentified Blanket — ΔT 1.39
- Border Sett — ΔT 1.41
- Wilson's Blanket Pattern — ΔT 1.41
- MacGregor Dress Burgundy (Dance) — ΔT 1.45
- Grant of Acharrow — ΔT 1.46
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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