Akins of Candler (Personal)
Bands: GRGKBYBKRGRG · Stripes: G R G K DB LY DB K R G R G G R G K DB LY DB K R G R G
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=34
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/2004 — Akins of Candler (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 2004 — Akins Hunting (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 34
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6288
Thread count
G/4 R4 G22 K4 DB24 Y4 DB24 K24 R4 G4 R4 G/24

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #1474B4 #1474B4 | B #2A418A | 0.15 |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Gemmell Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 3213. Earliest known date: 2001 Design copyright is owned by Thomas Kempsill Gemmell and Davina Creighton Gemmell. Designed in traditional tartan colours. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.59
- Black Watch Plaid of Pipers — ΔT 0.64
- MacEwen/MacEwan — ΔT 0.65
- Farquharson — ΔT 0.66
- MacKenzie MINI Clan Miniature Tartan Tartan Number: 2677. Earliest known date: 1778 Generated for Dupion Silk Stock list for display purpose. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.71
- Maresh — ΔT 0.74
- MacKenzie Morgan — ΔT 0.74
- Hunter of Peebleshire (Clan?) — ΔT 0.75
- Denovan, The Lairdship of (Personal) — ΔT 0.76
- Mantle Tartan Tartan Number: 6945. Earliest known date: 2006 A combination of Sinclair Hunting and MacQueen tartans relating to the clan associations of the the two families, Swan and Sinclair. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.79
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/s12/g12r2g2r2k12db12ly2db12k2g11r2g2~x2/