Hohenzollern Staff
In pattern RKGKGKGKWGWGW.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1748
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/03/2007 — Hohenzollern Staff (register-of-tartans, record)
- March 2007 — Hohenzollern Staff (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
LR/4 Ga2 LR28 Ga4 LR6 K16 G24 K2 Ga4 K2 G24 K16 R/48

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 |
| DBa | #003C64 #003C64 | B #2C4084 | 0.07 |
| DBb | #1C1C50 #1C1C50 | B #2C4084 | 0.14 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| Ga | #2CA418 #2CA418 | G #006400 | 0.20 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LR | #ECCCAC #ECCCAC | W #F4F4F0 | 0.11 |
| LRa | #E87878 #E87878 | R #C80000 | 0.19 |
| N | #888888 #888888 | R #C80000 | 0.24 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Palmer, Edward — ΔT 1.11
- Buchanan D — ΔT 1.19
- Johnson, J.M. — ΔT 1.22
- Forrester / Foster — ΔT 1.22
- Stewart - Pr Ch Ed (Error?) — ΔT 1.30
- Border Union Cattle Show — ΔT 1.34
- Forrester Tartan Tartan Number: 2384. Earliest known date: 1987 A society that has been in existence since the 1980's. This is a general tartan fully adopted in 1987. Can be worn by all with the name. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.35
- Buchanan (Logan) — ΔT 1.36
- Buchanan 5 — ΔT 1.38
- Buchanan #4 — ΔT 1.38
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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