Hudson's Bay Company
Bands: RKWKRGRKRYRR · Stripes: R K W K O G O K O LY O R R K W K O G O K O LY O R
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1778
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1974 — Hudson's Bay Company (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1974, pre — Hudson's Bay (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — Hudson Bay Company Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 1612. Earliest known date: 1984 Designed by Gordon Kirkbright now (2002) of Fraser & Kirkbright, Vancouver, when he worked with West Coast Woolen Mill. Orange sometimes given as Red. Often woven in reprocolours where black becomes a dark brown. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 1778
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1612
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1612
Thread count
R/4 DB68 LN4 DB4 N54 G2 N4 DB6 N4 Y2 N4 R/4
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #00002C #00002C | K #000000 | 0.16 |
| G | #289C18 #289C18 | G #006100 | 0.19 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| N | #888888 #888888 | R #CC0000 | 0.24 |
| O | #D87C00 #D87C00 | Y #F2BF00 | 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.
- MacBeth, MacLulich — ΔT 0.99
- Silverton (Name) — ΔT 1.01
- Melrose Newbigging Grey — ΔT 1.04
- MacBeth — ΔT 1.09
- Royal Stewart, (Variant) — ΔT 1.10
- MacBeth — ΔT 1.15
- Hudson, Bay Company — ΔT 1.17
- Moskyok-Collins (Portland) (Personal — ΔT 1.25
- O'Mahony, The (Commemorative) — ΔT 1.28
- Cavalry, 7th.. — ΔT 1.28
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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