Malcolm (symmetrical)

Bands: BGBKGKYKBKGKBRB · Stripes: DB DG DB K DG K LY K T K DG K DB R DB DB DG DB K DG K LY K T K DG K DB R DB

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 band tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2794

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

• Scottish Register of Tartans: 2794
• Scottish Tartans World Register: 105

Thread count

B/8 G4 B24 K24 G24 K4 Y4 K4 Ba4 K4 G24 K24 B24 R4 B/8

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. Malcolm #2 — ΔT 0.43
2. Malcolm — ΔT 0.88
3. Forbes of Druminnor Artifact Tartan Tartan Number: 592. Earliest known date: 1968 Inspired by an old rug belonging to Hon. Peggy Forbes Semphill. A sample was woven by A Stewart while acting as Director of Research at the Scottish Tartans Society in 1968. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.97
4. Lee Cox (Personal) — ΔT 1.04
5. Kinloch Anderson Hunting — ΔT 1.06
6. Forbes of Druinnor (Artefact) — ΔT 1.07
7. Cumbernauld District Tartan Tartan Number: 1566. Earliest known date: 1987 The Cumbernauld tartan is the same as the MacKenzie, except for a change in the colour scheme. Ancient green was incorporated with modern blue, black and red to represent a new thriving community, proud of its heritage. Cumbernauld is one of Scotlands new towns. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.11
8. MacEwen/MacEwan — ΔT 1.12
9. Polaris Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 222. Earliest known date: 1964 Designed for the Officers and men of the American Submarine base at the Holy Loch - making the Polaris submarine the first ship in history to have its own tartan. The idea came from Captain Walter F Schlech, Commander of the submarine squadron. The arrangement of stripes between the cornflower yellows is blue-sky-blue (Dalgliesh). It was previously recorded as green-blue-green (STS). The sindex card created by Davidson c1964 is Black-Royal Blue-Black. The sky blue version was recently confirmed as the correct one by R. E. Trygstad, LCDR USN (Retired), who has in his possession an original scarf with the sky blue colours. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.13
10. Urquhart (Brydone) — ΔT 1.13

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.

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