Bowie (Lochcarron)

Bands: BRBRBRKGRGYG · Stripes: B R B R B R K DG R DG LO DG B R B R B R K DG R DG LO DG

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 band tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=323

Attestations

This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.

• 01/01/1978 — Bowie (Lochcarron) (register-of-tartans, record)
• 1960s — Bowie (Name) (tartans-authority, record)

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

• Scottish Register of Tartans: 323
• Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 435
• Scottish Tartans World Register: 435

Thread count

B/20 R4 B6 R8 B26 R4 K26 G26 R8 G6 DY4 G/20

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. Niagara Falls — ΔT 0.69
2. Niagra Falls Trade Tartan Tartan Number: 1915. Earliest known date: 1967 Designed to be used in the refurbishing of Johnstons of Elgin new mill shop and based on the colours of the mill shop house style. The lighter square is represented here as green from the 'Antique' colour range, a speciality of Johnstons of Elgin. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.71
3. Denovan, The Lairdship of (Personal) — ΔT 0.80
4. Macallan — ΔT 0.80
5. Akins of Candler (Personal) — ΔT 0.81
6. Niagara Falls — ΔT 0.90
7. Swankie (Personal) — ΔT 0.91
8. Keith (District) — ΔT 0.92
9. MacMillan Hunting Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 668. Earliest known date: 1906 The Setts No: 160. W & A K Johnston See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.94
10. Scotland's National Dress — ΔT 0.94

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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