Royal Air Force Regimental Tartan Tartan Number: 2123. Earliest known date: 1988 The Royal Air Force initially declined to approve this tartan for members of the Air Services. However the tartan was worn by Scottish ex-servicemen and those who have served in Scotland and became quite popular. In 2002 it was officially adopted by the RAF. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
Bands: RBBBBBKBRBW · Stripes: R DB T DB T DB K DB R DB W R DB T DB T DB K DB R DB W
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 11 band tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2123
Thread count
DR/6 DB4 B16 DB6 B58 DBa8 K26 DB50 DR6 DB16 LN/8
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | B #2A418A | 0.23 |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| DBa | #1C0070 #1C0070 | B #2A418A | 0.14 |
| DR | #901C38 #901C38 | R #CC0000 | 0.13 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Air Force — ΔT 0.52
- GYL family (Personal) — ΔT 0.68
- Scottish Tourist Guides Association — ΔT 0.76
- GYL (Personal) — ΔT 0.81
- Bute Heather, Ancient — ΔT 0.95
- Brighton & Hove — ΔT 0.98
- Ancient Gathering — ΔT 1.06
- Unidentified (Woven sample) — ΔT 1.06
- Heirloom Blue Alba (Fashion) — ΔT 1.09
- Alexander of Menstry — ΔT 1.11
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/w4db8r3db25k13db4t29db3t8db2r3~x2/