Forbes Dress

Bands: BKBKGKWKGKWBWBW · Stripes: DB K DB K G K W K G K W DB W DB W DB K DB K G K W K G K W DB W DB W

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

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1222

Attestations

This cloth appears in 4 source records; the oldest owns this page.

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

Thread count

DB/4 K4 DB16 K16 G24 K2 W4 K2 G24 K16 W6 DB6 W28 DB4 W/4 Sett

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

ColourShadeBaseΔE (OKLab)
DB#2C2C80 #2C2C80B #2A418A0.06
G#006818 #006818G #0061000.02
K#101010 #101010K #0000000.17
W#FCFCFC #FCFCFCW #F7F7F70.01

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

  1. Campbell, 42nd dress — ΔT 0.61
  2. Campbell, Forty Second — ΔT 0.70
  3. Campbell, 42nd Dress (Balhousie) — ΔT 0.75
  4. Campbell, The 42nd Dress — ΔT 0.83
  5. Lauder — ΔT 1.12
  6. MacKenzie Dress #2 — ΔT 1.14
  7. Lochalsh (Fashion) — ΔT 1.15
  8. MacKenzie, dress — ΔT 1.17
  9. Dinarzh: (Fashion) — ΔT 1.21
  10. Murray of Atholl Dress — ΔT 1.22

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.

Campbell, 42nd dressCampbell, Forty SecondCampbell, 42nd Dress (Balhousie)Campbell, The 42nd DressLauderMacKenzie Dress #2Lochalsh (Fashion)MacKenzie, dressDinarzh: (Fashion)Murray of Atholl Dress

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