Hebridean Cairn
Bands: BRBRBRBRBRBRBR · Stripes: N O N O N O N O N O N O N O N O N O N O N O N O N O N O
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1652
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/12/2005 — Hebridean Cairn (register-of-tartans, record)
- 01/12/2005 — Hebridean Mist (register-of-tartans, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 1655
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6823
Thread count
N/4 Na72 N8 Na40 N12 Na12 N12 Na8 N12 Na12 N12 Na40 N8 Na/72

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| N | #888888 #888888 | R #CC0000 | 0.24 |
| Na | #5C5C5C #5C5C5C | B #2A418A | 0.15 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Hebridean Cairn (Fashion) — ΔT 1.15
- Hebridean Cairn Fashion Tartan Tartan Number: 6822. Earliest known date: 2005 For a new House of Edgar Collection in wedding gray. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.92
- Bute Heather, Black (Fashion) — ΔT 2.33
- Black Shadow — ΔT 2.99
- Unidentified Plaid 2 — ΔT 3.14
- Montgomerie/Montgomery — ΔT 3.34
- Dunbar, John Telfer (Personal) — ΔT 3.34
- Black Shadow Fashion Tartan Tartan Number: 3193. Earliest known date: 01/01/2007 Designed as a combination of two shades of black, shown here as black and dark grey to illustrate the sett. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 3.41
- Unidentified Plaid — ΔT 3.42
- Takla Makan #2 — ΔT 3.44
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/n18o2n10o3n3o3n2o3n3o3n10o2n18o1~x4/