Gemmell of Dumfries & Galloway (Personal)
Bands: GRBWKBRKGBW · Stripes: DG R DB W K B R K DG DB W DG R DB W K B R K DG DB W
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1329
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/09/2001 — Gemmell of Dumfries & Galloway (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
- 2001 — Gemmell Dress (2001) (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 1329
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3898
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2873
Thread count
G/24 R4 DB10 LN2 K20 B30 R20 K10 G8 DB80 LN/8

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #4C84C4 #4C84C4 | B #2A418A | 0.21 |
| DB | #2C00AC #2C00AC | B #2A418A | 0.11 |
| G | #285800 #285800 | G #006100 | 0.03 |
| Ga | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Wrens — ΔT 0.87
- Lyon (Personal) — ΔT 1.07
- Scragg, Moran (Personal) — ΔT 1.25
- Bell Rock Lighthouse 200th Aniversar — ΔT 1.25
- Timmins (2013) — ΔT 1.26
- Timmins (2013) — ΔT 1.42
- Pride of Scotland — ΔT 1.42
- Yule (Name) — ΔT 1.44
- O'Reilly Irish Fashion Tartan Tartan Number: 6747. Earliest known date: pre 2005 Scotch Corner (a company in Gateshead, England) have produced various Irish surname tartans over the years. However, it may be considered that this is how many of Scotland's clan tartans came into being so perhaps in a hundred years or so, today's inventions will be regarded as tomorrow's genuine Irish clan/family tartans. Woven by Marton Mills, Yorkshire. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.45
- Mead of Poetry (Fashion) — ΔT 1.45
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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