Houston #2 (Personal)
In pattern GYGYGYGYGYBY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripes 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)
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 #2C4084 | 0.22 |
| DY | #BC8C00 #BC8C00 | Y #E8C000 | 0.16 |
| DYa | #BC8C00 #BC8C00 | Y #E8C000 | 0.16 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LT | #A08858 #A08858 | Y #E8C000 | 0.21 |
| T | #604000 #604000 | G #006400 | 0.14 |
| Ta | #604000 #604000 | G #006400 | 0.14 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
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 1.66
- KIltwalk, The (Corporate) — ΔT 2.14
- Reid (1939) — ΔT 2.18
- Welsh, Stanly-Gpa (Personal) — ΔT 2.24
- Reece, Mathew — ΔT 2.28
- Portosalvo (Corporate) — ΔT 2.31
- Catalan District Tartan Tartan Number: 2071. Earliest known date: 1991 The 10th century Compte de Barcelona, Guifre Pilos, with his dying breath brushed his four bloodstained fingers down his shield leaving four vertical stripes creating the heraldic device of Catalunya. Later the stripes were turned sideways for the Bandera. (flag). The tartan also incorporates white for the snow, green for the flora and blue for the Mediterranean Sea. It was first seen at the Barcelona Olympic Games, 1992. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 2.32
- Spencer — ΔT 2.36
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.
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