Nairn (Edinburgh Woollen Mill)
Bands: RGBKBKGKBKY · Stripes: R G DB K B K G K B K LO R G DB K B K G K B K LO
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3090
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3090
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5635
Thread count
DR/4 G20 DB20 K10 B4 K10 G20 K20 B4 K20 DY/4

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #3850C8 #3850C8 | B #2A418A | 0.11 |
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | B #2A418A | 0.14 |
| DR | #880000 #880000 | R #CC0000 | 0.15 |
| DY | #D09800 #D09800 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.12 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Nance (1998) — ΔT 1.05
- Free (Universal) — ΔT 1.10
- Lloyd of Dolobran Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1970. Earliest known date: 1930-50 This sample comes from the MacGregor-Hastie collection which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. Some of the samples, including this one, were unmarked. One can assume that the sample dates between 1930 and 1950. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.10
- Free (Wishaw) — ΔT 1.17
- Game Fair — ΔT 1.20
- Gordon Dress (US Fashion) — ΔT 1.23
- Scottish Tartan Society — ΔT 1.26
- Wells, Edward G. (Personal) — ΔT 1.29
- Maitland — ΔT 1.29
- Maitland — ΔT 1.29
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.
ID: /setts/s11/lo2k10b2k10g10k5b2k5db10g10r2~x2/