Auld Alliance
Bands: BBBBWRBBBBBBBBBW · Stripes: DP DB DP DB W R DB DB DB DB DB DB DB DB DB W DP DB DP DB W R DB DB DB DB DB DB DB DB DB W
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 16 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5824
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 5824
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 3155
Thread count
LN/10 DB2 B20 DB4 B8 DB4 B2 DB4 B8 DB4 R30 LN30 DB30 P4 DB2 P/8
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 |
| DB | #141E46 #141E46 | B #2A418A | 0.16 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| P | #5A008C #5A008C | B #2A418A | 0.13 |
| R | #DC0000 #DC0000 | R #CC0000 | 0.03 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Royal Canadian Air Force (Military) — ΔT 0.61
- Royal Canadian Air Force — ΔT 0.86
- Carnegie #2 — ΔT 0.91
- Chieftain, The — ΔT 0.92
- Popular — ΔT 1.11
- MacDougall #7 — ΔT 1.14
- Hebridean Arisaid Blue (Dance) — ΔT 1.16
- American Bi-Centennial — ΔT 1.17
- Unnamed - C19th (Annie Oakley) — ΔT 1.17
- Royal Canadian Air Force Regimental Tartan Tartan Number: 1343. Earliest known date: 1942 The threadcount was provided by the Canadian Defence Department. Colours specified as dark blue, light blue and maroon. It is unusual to have a single strand used in a thread count as it is impossible to turn the thread on the 'kilt edge'. The sett is recorded and approved by the Lord Lyon. Design is based on the Anderson sett. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.21
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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