Olympic

In pattern GBRKYBGBRKWBR.

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

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3242

Attestations

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

• 01/01/1976 — Olympic (register-of-tartans, record)
• 1976 — Montreal Olympics (1976) (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)

Thread count

G/46 DB4 R4 K4 Y4 DB4 G12 DB54 R4 K4 W4 DB4 R/48

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. Olympic Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 1923. Earliest known date: pre 2003 Olympic symbol on every red block See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.38
2. Quebec Plaid Du.. Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 1949. Earliest known date: 1965 The Scottish Tartans Society received a sample from A.C.Lumsden which is slightly different. (The black and the dark blue are almost indistinguishable). The colours of the tartan are taken from the Provincial Coat of Arms. The tartan is not registered with Lord Lyon. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.38
3. Olympic — ΔT 0.69
4. Olympicana — ΔT 0.75
5. Berwick-upon-Tweed (symmetric) — ΔT 0.91
6. Roman Family Tribute (Personal) Name Tartan Tartan Number: 10740. Earliest known date: 20 November 2012 This tartan was designed by Blair Urquhart of House of Tartans, Scotland, for Kevin Roman, to honour family members. The tartan draws on three Scots forebears for its inspiration: his great grandmother, a MacKenzie; his grandmother, a Turnbull; and his mother, a Gill. The tartan is also a tribute to the memory of Kevin Roman's grandfather, Octavious Gill, who died fighting in the First World War, and his father, Joseph Roman, who fought in the desert in the Second World War, and then in Suez. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.92
7. Quebec, Plaid du — ΔT 0.94
8. Roman Family Tribute (Personal) — ΔT 0.95
9. Unidentified Furnishing — ΔT 0.96
10. Quebec, Plaid du (District) — ΔT 0.96

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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