Scottish Cultural Society
Bands: BGKYKBWBWBWBKYKG · Stripes: DP G K LO K DB LB DB LB DB LB DB K LO K G DP G K LO K DB LB DB LB DB LB DB K LO K G
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 16 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3713
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1994 — Scottish Cultural Society (register-of-tartans, record)
- undated — Scottish Cultural Society Ltd Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2390. Earliest known date: 1994 An Illinois charity for members with Scottish connections/interests founded in 1977. Designers Judie Macrae and Jean Givler. 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: 3713
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2390
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2390
Thread count
G/32 K64 DY8 K8 DB32 N8 DB8 N16 DB8 N8 DB32 K8 DY8 K64 G32 P/16

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | B #2A418A | 0.14 |
| DY | #D09800 #D09800 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.12 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| N | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.17 |
| P | #6C0070 #6C0070 | B #2A418A | 0.16 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Annandale (Personal) — ΔT 0.84
- Elgin-Landshut — ΔT 0.86
- Scottish Hockey Union — ΔT 0.88
- Unidentified fragment — ΔT 0.88
- Shandon (Personal) — ΔT 0.98
- Drennan — ΔT 1.03
- Shandon (Personal) — ΔT 1.05
- Cunningham Hunting — ΔT 1.10
- Farquharson Dress (Fashion) — ΔT 1.10
- MacNicol Hunting — ΔT 1.13
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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