Kinloch Anderson
In pattern RBRBKGKYGYGR.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1987
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/11/1997 — Kinloch Anderson (register-of-tartans, record)
- Unknown — Kinloch Anderson #1 (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
R/8 DB8 R4 DB28 K12 T6 K12 O4 T8 O4 T28 R/8

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| O | #D87C00 #D87C00 | Y #E8C000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
| T | #604000 #604000 | G #006400 | 0.14 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Kinloch Anderson #2 (Corporate) — ΔT 0.68
- Law Society of Scotland (Corporate) — ΔT 0.68
- MacDougall - 1970 (William) (Comm) — ΔT 0.94
- Orkney — ΔT 0.99
- Macallan — ΔT 1.00
- MacSporran Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 495. Earliest known date: 1978 Adopted by the Clan MacSporran Association in 1978 See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.02
- MacInroy (Rattray) — ΔT 1.06
- Dryer (Personal) — ΔT 1.06
- Cameron of Erracht (WCWM) — ΔT 1.07
- Tupper, Sir Charles — ΔT 1.07
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/s12/r8g28y4g8y4k12g6k12b28r4b8r8-b2c2c80-g604000-k101010-rc80000-yd87c00/