Spirit of Alba

In pattern BGBBGBGBBBGBGBBG.

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 16 stripes tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3862

Attestations

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

• 19/09/2001 — Spirit of Alba (register-of-tartans, record)
• undated — Spirit of Alba Fashion Weavers Tartan Tartan Number: 3904. Earliest known date: 2001 Designed by Claire Donaldson of the House of Edgar for Robert Nicol of Perth & Dunfermline. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)

Thread count

DBa/4 G2 P48 DB36 G4 DB4 G2 DBa38 B8 DBa38 G2 DB4 G4 DB36 P48 G/2

Palette

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

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. Spirit of Alba (Fashion) — ΔT 1.24
2. Highland Cathedral (Fashion) — ΔT 1.39
3. Rangers F. C. Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2170. Earliest known date: 1994 The original tartan was designed in 1989 by Tartan Sportswear. Chris Aitken, designer for Geoffrey (Tailor) Highland Crafts, Edinburgh, increased the size of the sett and changed the shade of blue to suit the Rangers team colours. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.69
4. Highland Cathedral — ΔT 1.76
5. Rangers F. C. Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2062. Earliest known date: 1989 First of a new range of football club tartans designed by the Glasgow kiltmakers, Messrs John MacGregor, who formed a new company, Tartan Sportswear, to develop the idea. The Glasgow Rangers Tartan was launched at September first's game with Ally McCoist in full Highland Dress. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.94
6. Timmins (Personal) — ΔT 1.97
7. Scottish Canals Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 3916. Earliest known date: 2001 Designed by Claire Donaldson of House of Edgar for BWB. Initially called Highland Canals, later changed (April 2002) to Caledonian Canal and then in January 2003 to Scottish Canals. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.99
8. Benedictus Blue (Personal) — ΔT 2.02
9. Strathtummel (District?) — ΔT 2.07
10. Newlands, Charlie (Personal) — ΔT 2.11

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.

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