Desert

Bands: RKRKRKRKYKYKWY · Stripes: R K R K R K R K LY K LY K W LO R K R K R K R K LY K LY K W LO

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 band tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=918

Attestations

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

• 01/01/1979 — Desert (register-of-tartans, record)
• 1979 — Desert (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

• Scottish Register of Tartans: 918
• Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7055

Thread count

LT/140 W6 K4 Y2 K4 Y2 K10 R2 K10 R4 K14 R4 K14 R/6

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. Cavalier, Green.. — ΔT 1.35
2. Cavalier Green.. Trade Tartan Tartan Number: 1292. Earliest known date: pre 2003 The 10th century Compte de Barcelona, Guifre Pilos, with his dying breath brushed his four bloodstained fingers down his shield leaving four vertical stripes creating the heraldic device of Catalunya. Later the stripes were turned sideways for the Bandera. (flag). The tartan also incorporates white for the snow, green for the flora and blue for the Mediterranean Sea. It was first seen at the Barcelona Olympic Games, 1992. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.36
3. Wcwm 9275-1415 — ΔT 1.58
4. Morgan Jocelyn . . . (Personal) — ΔT 1.89
5. Stewart Dress — ΔT 1.92
6. Stewart Dress — ΔT 1.92
7. Dalriada — ΔT 1.92
8. Hay — ΔT 1.93
9. Crieff High (Corporate) — ΔT 1.94
10. Durango — ΔT 1.94

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/lo70w3k2ly1k2ly1k5r1k5r2k7r2k7r3~x2/