Australian National
In pattern BGWGWGYGKBWBRB.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=140
Also known as
This cloth is also recorded under:
- Australian National Australian
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/08/2002 — Australian National (register-of-tartans, record)
- 2002 — Australian National (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — Australian National Australian District Tartan Tartan Number: 6098. Earliest known date: pre 2004 Designed by Betty Johnston of the House of Tartan, Canberra. The Tartan is said to have been formally recognized and accredited by the Protocol Department and Federal Australian Government and was also alleged to have been officially launched at the 30th Bundanoon Highland Festival on 28th April 2007 by the Chieftain on the day the Rt Hon Helen Liddell, British High Commissioner. However . . . . this claim of legitimacy for the tartan is said to be debatable and based on commercial interest. The Scottish Australian Heritage Council is working to have the original Australian tartan (611) accepted by the Commonwealth of Australia. Design rationale as follows. RED, WHITE and BLUE - these colours stem from our National flag and from the time that Captain James Cook first raised the flag (Union Jack) on Australian soil. The six white stripes represent the Southern Cross constellation, which is unique to this hemisphere. This also includes our Federation or Commonwealth Star. Red and White stripes represent the Red Cross of St George (England) on a white background. WHITE - White Diagonal cross represents St Andrews (Scotland) on a dark blue background. RED - Red Diagonal cross represents St Patrick (Ireland). GREEN and GOLD - Green and gold were formally proclaimed by the Australian Government as National colours in 1984 after many requests were made to have traditional sporting colours. BLACK - The Black stripes in the tartan represents Australian's early beginnings as a convict settlement- a dark area of our history. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 140
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6098
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2742
Thread count
DBa/104 G30 W2 G4 W2 G4 Y4 G4 K4 DB6 W4 DBa4 R4 DB/10
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 #2A418A | 0.06 |
| DBa | #202060 #202060 | B #2A418A | 0.11 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Sedge, Douglas (Personal) — ΔT 1.19
- O'Shaughnessy (Estimated threadcount) — ΔT 1.22
- Reeves (2015) — ΔT 1.38
- O'Shaughnessy Memorial — ΔT 1.42
- Shaughnessy — ΔT 1.46
- Lanyard Blue (Fashion) — ΔT 1.47
- ASF Official (Corporate) — ΔT 1.55
- St. Andrew Quebec City — ΔT 1.55
- Royal Navy — ΔT 1.56
- Scottish Heritage Society (Corporate — ΔT 1.56
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14299 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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