Black and White
Bands: KRKRWRWRWRWKRKW · Stripes: K O K O W O W O W O W K R K W K O K O W O W O W O W K R K W
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=271
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1984 — Black and White (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1984 — Black & White Whisky (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — Black and White Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2042. Earliest known date: pre 2003 This is a miniture version of the regular Black Watch sett. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 271
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2042
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2042
Thread count
K/38 N12 K6 N30 W6 N24 W18 N6 W40 N6 W40 K38 R8 K10 W/6
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| N | #888888 #888888 | R #CC0000 | 0.24 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Black and White Colourway — ΔT 0.52
- Poulter SG 103 (Fashion) — ΔT 0.81
- Black and White — ΔT 0.81
- MacDonald, Flora (Dance) — ΔT 0.86
- Unidentified #56 — ΔT 0.87
- Black and White, Colourway — ΔT 1.03
- Poulter SG 104 (Fashion) — ΔT 1.17
- Grey Watch Trade Tartan Tartan Number: 1286. Earliest known date: pre 2003 From a sample woven by Peter Anderson Ltd, Galashiels. The Gray family can be Septs of either Clan Stewart or Clan Sutherland. A rebel son of the Stewarts changed his name to MacGlashan (anglicised to Gray). In the north the Grays of Sutherland possessed lands at Skibo, Sordell and Ardinish. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.17
- Poulter, Grey (Corporate) — ΔT 1.17
- Hayama Shirt Honten, The — ΔT 1.19
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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