Dowling

Bands: WBKBGKWKWKYBW · Stripes: LB DO K DO G K LB K LB K LY DB LB LB DO K DO G K LB K LB K LY DB LB

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 band tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=967

Attestations

This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.

• 01/01/1990 — Dowling (register-of-tartans, record)
• 1990 — Dowling (District) (tartans-authority, record)

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

• Scottish Register of Tartans: 967
• Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4708

Thread count

N/6 DB40 LG10 Ka16 N6 Ka6 N6 Ka6 G28 K16 Ka6 K8 N/6

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. Bowling (Clan) — ΔT 0.63
2. Clodagh, Cork — ΔT 0.86
3. Kagame (Personal) — ΔT 0.87
4. Clodagh Cork Irish District Tartan Tartan Number: 1795. Earliest known date: 1970 In a letter from a Northern Irish bagpipe maker in 1979 it says, '...it has been established that it originated somewhere in the Bog of Allen in Southern Ireland.' However, there is a marked similarity with the King George VI tartan which is a variation of the Royal Stewart. There is also a similarity with the MacBeth tartan. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.90
5. Clodagh/Cork — ΔT 1.05
6. Kagame Personal Tartan Tartan Number: 7077. Earliest known date: 2006 Presented to President Kagame of Rwanda, by Tom Hunter, christmas 2006 See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.19
7. Farquharson Dress — ΔT 1.21
8. Hebridean Celebration — ΔT 1.23
9. Gemmell — ΔT 1.24
10. North of Scotland Tartan Army — ΔT 1.25

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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