Forbes

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

This was sourced from weddslist. It is a 15 band tartan.

Original link http://www.weddslist.com/cgi-bin/tartans/pg.pl?source=sts

Attestations

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

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

Variants

Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.

Thread count

B/16 K2 B4 K2 B4 K12 G16 K2 LN4 K2 G16 K12 B16 K2 B/4 Sett

Palette

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

ColourShadeBaseΔE (OKLab)
B#304080 #304080B #2A418A0.02
G#008000 #008000G #0061000.10
K#000000 #000000K #0000000.00
LN#E0E0E0 #E0E0E0W #F7F7F70.07

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

  1. Forbes — ΔT 0.38
  2. Stephenson, hunting — ΔT 0.55
  3. Arbuthnott — ΔT 0.61
  4. MacKinlay — ΔT 0.61
  5. Safeway — ΔT 0.62
  6. Gordon 4 — ΔT 0.67
  7. Gordon 2 — ΔT 0.71
  8. Cheape — ΔT 0.73
  9. Gordon 5 — ΔT 0.77
  10. Norwich No.115 — ΔT 0.78

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.

ForbesStephenson, huntingArbuthnottMacKinlaySafewayGordon 4Gordon 2CheapeGordon 5Norwich No.115

ID: /setts/s15/db8k1db2k1db2k6g8k1w2k1g8k6db8k1db2~x2/

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