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
In pattern RBBBBBKBRBW.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 11 stripes 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 #2C4084 | 0.23 |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| DBa | #1C0070 #1C0070 | B #2C4084 | 0.14 |
| DR | #901C38 #901C38 | R #C80000 | 0.12 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Air Force — ΔT 0.51
- GYL family (Personal) — ΔT 0.68
- Scottish Tourist Guides Association — ΔT 0.76
- GYL (Personal) — ΔT 0.80
- Bute Heather, Ancient — ΔT 0.95
- Brighton & Hove — ΔT 0.97
- Unidentified (Woven sample) — ΔT 1.06
- Ancient Gathering — ΔT 1.06
- Heirloom Blue Alba (Fashion) — ΔT 1.09
- Alexander of Menstry — ΔT 1.10
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 15726 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/w8b16r6b50k26ba8bb58b6bb16b4r6-b2c2c80-ba1c0070-bb5c8ca8-k101010-r901c38-we0e0e0/