Citadel Military Academy
In pattern RKBBYBYBYBYBBKY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=652
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1979 — Citadel Military Academy (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1980 — Citadel Military Academy (Military) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
R/6 K4 B36 DB20 N6 DB4 N4 DB10 N4 DB4 N6 DB20 B36 K4 Y/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #2888C4 #2888C4 | B #2C4084 | 0.21 |
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | B #2C4084 | 0.14 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| N | #B8B8B8 #B8B8B8 | Y #E8C000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Citadel Military Academy Regimental Tartan Tartan Number: 1572. Earliest known date: 1980 Submitted to STS Monitoring Committee March 1982. South Carolina Military School. Ludovic Grant-Alexander possibly designer (Bob Marton) at that time, head of the Citadel Piping School. Woven by Dalgleish, 1980. Changed background to azure in 2007 following advice from C Adams. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.87
- Harmon of Plenderleith (Personal) — ΔT 1.00
- Citadel, Military Academy — ΔT 1.03
- Harmony — ΔT 1.06
- Manchester City Football Club "Blue Moon" — ΔT 1.14
- GYL family (Personal) — ΔT 1.18
- Manchester City Football Club "Blue — ΔT 1.19
- U.S. Forces Thurso — ΔT 1.19
- Buchanan, John & Isabella (Commemor) — ΔT 1.25
- Texas Bluebonnet District Tartan Tartan Number: 852. Earliest known date: 1983 The colours of the Texas Bluebonnet district tartan owe their selection to the bluebonnet flower, a member of the lupin family, which is widespread in many parts of Texas. The flower changes colour with the passing of time, the 'brim' becoming flecked with wine red. The tartan was adopted as the Sequicentennial Tartan and Accredited by the Scottish Tartans Society. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.27
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 15726 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.
ID: /setts/s15/r6k4b36ba20y6ba4y4ba10y4ba4y6ba20b36k4ya6-b2888c4-ba1c0070-k101010-rc80000-yb8b8b8-yae8c000/