Bird of Paradise (Fashion)
In pattern BYGRGRGYBYRY.
This was sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 12 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/3691/
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 1972 — Bird of Paradise (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — Bird of Paradise (register-of-tartans, record)
Thread count
DB/6 O12 G6 R6 G24 R6 G6 O6 DB10 O6 R6 O/56

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 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| O | #D87C00 #D87C00 | Y #E8C000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacKinnon 7 — ΔT 0.94
- MacDonald of Kingsburgh — ΔT 0.96
- Burns — ΔT 1.12
- Annan — ΔT 1.15
- MacKinnon 9 — ΔT 1.21
- Bruce, Old — ΔT 1.27
- MacKinnon 3 — ΔT 1.28
- Burnett — ΔT 1.28
- Burns Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1539. Earliest known date: pre 2003 Modern family sett discovered by MacKinlay at Messrs Forsyth. Probably dates between 1930-50. There is also a Robert Burns check. (see under R...) See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.32
- London, Caledonian — ΔT 1.34
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/y56r6y6b10y6g6r6g24r6g6y12b6-b2c2c80-g006818-rc80000-yd87c00/