Scottish Bear (Mathan Albannach)
Bands: GBBBWBYWBWG · Stripes: G DB DB DB W DB LY W DB W DY G DB DB DB W DB LY W DB W DY
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=11602
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 11602
Thread count
G/4 DB6 B22 DB4 W2 DB8 Y2 W4 DB10 W6 T/22

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #2C4084 #2C4084 | B #2A418A | 0.01 |
| DB | #000048 #000048 | B #2A418A | 0.22 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| T | #603800 #603800 | G #006100 | 0.16 |
| W | #FFFFFF #FFFFFF | W #F7F7F7 | 0.02 |
| Y | #FFFF00 #FFFF00 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.16 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Royal Dornoch Golf Club, The — ΔT 0.76
- Kagame Personal Tartan Tartan Number: 7077. Earliest known date: 2006 Presented to President Kagame of Rwanda, by Tom Hunter, christmas 2006 See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.77
- Anderson-Moffat (Personal) — ΔT 0.84
- Unnamed, No 20 — ΔT 0.84
- Kagame (Personal) — ΔT 0.89
- Iowa Dress — ΔT 0.89
- McCuaig (Glenelg and the Western Isles) — ΔT 0.91
- Highfield Dress (Name) — ΔT 0.95
- U.S. Forces Thurso — ΔT 0.97
- Iowa Dress (District) — ΔT 0.99
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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