Dowling
In pattern WBKBGKWKWKYBW.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripes 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)
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.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #00008C #00008C | B #2C4084 | 0.13 |
| G | #007800 #007800 | G #006400 | 0.06 |
| K | #381C0C #381C0C | B #2C4084 | 0.21 |
| Ka | #000000 #000000 | K #000000 | 0.00 |
| LG | #9C9C00 #9C9C00 | Y #E8C000 | 0.16 |
| N | #C4C4C4 #C4C4C4 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.15 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Bowling — ΔT 0.62
- Bowling (Clan) — ΔT 0.63
- Clodagh, Cork — ΔT 0.86
- Kagame (Personal) — ΔT 0.87
- 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 0.89
- Clodagh/Cork — ΔT 1.05
- 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
- Farquharson Dress — ΔT 1.22
- North of Scotland Tartan Army — ΔT 1.23
- Hebridean Celebration — ΔT 1.23
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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