Golden Broom
Bands: RKRKYKBKRKRYYY · Stripes: R K R K LG K T K R K R LG LY LG R K R K LG K T K R K R LG LY LG
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4950
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/2005 — Golden Broom (register-of-tartans, record)
- 2005 — Golden Broom (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — Golden Broom (Corporate) Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 7072. Earliest known date: 2005 Designed by pupils of P6 & P7 in Mulbuie Primary School at Muir of Order (northwest of Inverness) during a project on the Jacobites. Mulbuie is the Gaelic for Golden Broom - thus the name of the tartan which has also been chosen as the official design for the 2007 Highland Year of Culture. Burgundy is the school colour, gold is for the golden broom and the greens and browns represent the area's agriculture. Woven sample. 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: 4950
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7072
Thread count
LG/24 Y6 LG12 DR38 K2 LR16 K4 B8 K4 LG38 K2 DR38 K2 LR/18
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #648894 #648894 | B #2A418A | 0.23 |
| DR | #980000 #980000 | R #CC0000 | 0.11 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LG | #5CAC84 #5CAC84 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.22 |
| LR | #E87878 #E87878 | R #CC0000 | 0.19 |
| LRa | #E08070 #E08070 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.19 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Unnamed No 1 Tartan Tartan Number: 1340. Earliest known date: 1870 This sett is taken from the records of Messrs Bolingbroke and Jones of Norwich, who were weavers around 1870. Some of the tartans have been adopted or modified in recent times as the copyright of the designs is now in the public domain. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.91
- Unidentified No 1 — ΔT 1.02
- Devon 2000 — ΔT 1.02
- Unnamed C20th - National Archives — ΔT 1.08
- Stewart - Pr Ch Ed (Royal) — ΔT 1.12
- Maclean of Duart (Wilsons) (Clan) — ΔT 1.14
- City of Edinburgh (2001) (District) — ΔT 1.16
- Westwood (Fashion?) — ΔT 1.17
- Innes (D C Stewart) — ΔT 1.19
- MacGuire Irish Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2427. Earliest known date: 1985 MacGuire is an Irish Family tartan See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.19
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/s14/lg12ly3lg6r19k1r8k2t4k2lg19k1r19k1r9~x2/