Bowling (Clan)

Bands: WBYKGKWKGGKGW · Stripes: W DB LO K G K W K G DY K DY W W DB LO K G K W K G DY K DY W

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

Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/1796/

Attestations

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

• 1880 — Bowling (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
• 01/01/1978 — Bowling (register-of-tartans, record)

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

• Scottish Register of Tartans: 324
• Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1796
• Scottish Tartans World Register: 1796

Thread count

W/8 DB56 DY12 K24 G8 K8 W8 K8 G32 T24 K8 T12 W/8

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. 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 0.40
2. Clodagh, Cork — ΔT 0.60
3. Dowling — ΔT 0.63
4. Webb (Personal) — ΔT 0.73
5. Clodagh/Cork — ΔT 0.82
6. North of Scotland Tartan Army — ΔT 0.95
7. Kagame (Personal) — ΔT 0.97
8. Land's End (Unnamed Maroon) (Personal) — ΔT 1.00
9. Stirling, and Bannockburn — ΔT 1.00
10. Bowie (white lines) (Name) — ΔT 1.01

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.

ID: /setts/s13/w2db14lo3k6g2k2w2k2g8dy6k2dy3w2~x4/