Houston #2 (Personal)
Bands: GYGYGYGYGYBY · Stripes: DY LO G LO DY LO G LO DY LO DO LO DY LO G LO DY LO G LO DY LO DO LO
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1774
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1994 — Houston #2 (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1994 — Houston (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 1774
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6043
Thread count
DYa/64 DR4 DYa24 Ta4 DYa2 G4 DYa2 Ta4 DYa2 G4 DYa2 Ta/4

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR | #441800 #441800 | B #2A418A | 0.23 |
| DY | #BC8C00 #BC8C00 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.16 |
| DYa | #BC8C00 #BC8C00 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.16 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LT | #A08858 #A08858 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.21 |
| T | #604000 #604000 | G #006100 | 0.14 |
| Ta | #604000 #604000 | G #006100 | 0.14 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Houston (Personal) — ΔT 1.26
- Houston Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2290. Earliest known date: 1994 Nothing See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.50
- Connacht (1993) — ΔT 1.67
- KIltwalk, The (Corporate) — ΔT 2.15
- Reid (1939) — ΔT 2.19
- Reece, Mathew — ΔT 2.28
- Portosalvo (Corporate) — ΔT 2.32
- Spencer — ΔT 2.37
- Reece (Name) — ΔT 2.40
- Catalan — ΔT 2.41
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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