Parkhead
Bands: GKGKYGGWGWG · Stripes: G K G K LY G G W G W G G K G K LY G G W G W G
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3294
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/09/2003 — Parkhead (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 2004 — Parkhead (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3294
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6220
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2958
Thread count
Ga/4 K4 Ga36 K28 Y4 Ga20 G16 W8 G4 W4 Ga/4

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| G | #289C18 #289C18 | G #006100 | 0.19 |
| Ga | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Forrester/Foster Hunting — ΔT 0.91
- Casey of West Virginia (Personal) — ΔT 1.03
- Forrester / Foster, hunting — ΔT 1.07
- Gayre Dress — ΔT 1.23
- Skene — ΔT 1.23
- Wellecomme, Bernard (Personal) — ΔT 1.24
- Confessore Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2165. Earliest known date: 1994 Designed for Mr Confessore of Napoli, Italy in 1994 by Mr. Keith Lumsden, researcher at the Scottish Tartans Society. The colours reflect the shades and tones of the Italian countryside. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.25
- Alberta — ΔT 1.26
- Cochrane, -1974 — ΔT 1.27
- Carrick, hunting — ΔT 1.28
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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