Popular Fancy Tartan Tartan Number: 1987. Earliest known date: pre 2003 Some mention of MacDougall and a Wilson connection. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
In pattern BKRBRKBKRKWKRK.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 14 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1987
Thread count
B/16 K32 R34 DB38 R8 K4 B14 K6 R6 K4 LN10 K2 R6 K/6
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | B #2C4084 | 0.23 |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Popular — ΔT 0.13
- Popular — ΔT 0.69
- American St Andrews Societies — ΔT 0.82
- MacLagan of Glenquiech — ΔT 1.05
- Unnamed - C19th (Annie Oakley) — ΔT 1.11
- Bush Pilot — ΔT 1.13
- Auld Alliance — ΔT 1.16
- American Bi-Centennial — ΔT 1.17
- Carnegie — ΔT 1.17
- Royal Canadian Air Force Regimental Tartan Tartan Number: 1343. Earliest known date: 1942 The threadcount was provided by the Canadian Defence Department. Colours specified as dark blue, light blue and maroon. It is unusual to have a single strand used in a thread count as it is impossible to turn the thread on the 'kilt edge'. The sett is recorded and approved by the Lord Lyon. Design is based on the Anderson sett. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.18
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.
ID: /setts/s14/b16k32r34ba38r8k4b14k6r6k4w10k2r6k6-b5c8ca8-ba2c2c80-k101010-rc80000-we0e0e0/