Japanese (nihon)
Bands: RKWRWRWRWRWKBKW · Stripes: R K W R W R W R W R W K DB K W R K W R W R W R W R W K DB 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=5886
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 5886
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 3187
Thread count
LN/8 K2 B32 K2 LN16 R4 LN2 R4 LN16 R4 LN2 R4 LN16 K2 R/96

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #2C4084 #2C4084 | B #2A418A | 0.01 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| R | #C80028 #C80028 | R #CC0000 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacGillivray — ΔT 1.42
- Unidentified #13 — ΔT 1.43
- MacFarlane Red — ΔT 1.46
- Campagna Center (Corporate) — ΔT 1.58
- MacFarlane — ΔT 1.59
- Connaught Irish District Tartan Tartan Number: 2064. Earliest known date: Not known A tartan from the West of Ireland. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.61
- MacFarlane, or Lendrum — ΔT 1.70
- MacGillivray #2 — ΔT 1.72
- Lendrum (Clan) — ΔT 1.74
- MacFarlane, Red — ΔT 1.75
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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