Knox (Personal)
Bands: GGWGKGWGBKGYG · Stripes: DG Y W Y K Y W Y DB K Y LY Y DG Y W Y K Y W Y DB K Y LY Y
This was sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 13 band tartan.
Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/2516/
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- Feb 1998 — Knox (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — Knox #3 (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
- undated — Knox Personal Tartan Tartan Number: 2516. Earliest known date: Feb 1998 Based on the MacFarlane (with whom Knox was associated) and designed by Keith Lumsden when with the Scottish Tartans Society for a Mr D L Knox of Lancashire. (details from Keith Lumsden 20.3.2008). This was originally numbered 7555 but that was changed to 2516 on inspection of the Tartan Society Tartans Explorer 3 floppy disk in June 2009. What WAS 2516 was then renumbered 7555. 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: 5583
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7555
Thread count
DG/110 G40 LN4 G6 K4 G6 LN4 G6 DB36 K4 G8 Y4 G/6

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 #2A418A | 0.06 |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | G #006100 | 0.15 |
| G | #744C34 #744C34 | G #006100 | 0.16 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Neumann - GPS German Pipe Smokers — ΔT 0.79
- Donohoe Grey, Peter — ΔT 0.99
- Donohoe Grey, Peter (Commemorative) — ΔT 1.00
- Trew 40th (Personal) — ΔT 1.09
- Rikaco Heirloom (Fashion) — ΔT 1.12
- Eastern Shore Police Emerald Society — ΔT 1.12
- Capercaillie Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 6857. Earliest known date: 2005 RSPB Scotland will receive a 7% royalty on all products made from the new tartan, created in the colours of the world's largest woodland grouse, in a deal struck with the leading tartan weavers Lochcarron. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.12
- U.S. Special Forces — ΔT 1.19
- Pringle (Personal) — ΔT 1.21
- Lusk (Personal) — ΔT 1.21
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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