Praetorian
In pattern WRYRKWWWKWWRWW.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5836
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 5836
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7390
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 3135
Thread count
W/6 DR6 Y6 R48 K6 N6 W48 N6 K48 N6 W6 R48 N6 W/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR | #800000 #800000 | R #CC0000 | 0.17 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| N | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.17 |
| R | #FF0000 #FF0000 | R #CC0000 | 0.11 |
| W | #FFFFFF #FFFFFF | W #F7F7F7 | 0.02 |
| Y | #FFFF00 #FFFF00 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.16 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Praetorian (Fashion) — ΔT 0.80
- MacKellar Dress Red — ΔT 1.23
- MacKellar Dress Red Fashion Tartan Tartan Number: 6563. Earliest known date: 01/01/2002 The Mackellar Dress sett was originally designed by AA Bottomley of Peter MacArthur's. The colours of this version have been changed (presumably by DC Dalgliesh of Selkirk) to produce a Dancers' tartan./Threadcount and colours aren't 100% original. Generated manually./ See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.38
- MacDougal (Dress) — ΔT 1.42
- Gillies Red Dress — ΔT 1.42
- Crieff Red Dress (Dance) — ΔT 1.44
- Harmon Dress — ΔT 1.45
- MacLean of Duart Dress #2 — ΔT 1.49
- Stewart - Pr Ch Ed (Royal) — ΔT 1.52
- Aguilar Gorrondona Family (Personal) — ΔT 1.54
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.
ID: /setts/s14/w1r1ly1r8k1lb1w8lb1k8lb1w1r8lb1w1~x6/