Baillie of Polkemmet

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Bands: BKBKBKGWGWGWGKBKB · Stripes: DB K DB K DB K G W G W G W G K DB K DB DB K DB K DB K G W G W G W G K DB K DB

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 17 band tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=165

Attestations

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

01/01/1937 — Baillie of Polkemmet (register-of-tartans, record)
1937 — Baillie of Polkemett, Green (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

Scottish Register of Tartans: 165
Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 206
Scottish Tartans World Register: 206

Variants

Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.

Baillie of Polkemett Family Tartan Tartan Number: 206. Earliest known date: 1937 This sett was designed by Mr A.W. Geddes of Messrs William Anderson of Edinburgh in 1937. It is based on the MacKenzie tartan substituting three fine white lines on the green in place of the single stripe. It was designed for the Baillies of Polkemett. Geddes also produced a red sett for the Baillies around the same period. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015

Thread count

DB/44 K4 DB4 K4 DB4 K36 G36 LN4 G4 LN4 G4 LN4 G36 K36 DB32 K4 DB/4 Sett

Palette

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

Colour	Shade	Base	ΔE (OKLab)
DB	`#2C2C80` `#2C2C80`	B `#2A418A`	0.06
G	`#006818` `#006818`	G `#006100`	0.02
K	`#101010` `#101010`	K `#000000`	0.17
LN	`#E0E0E0` `#E0E0E0`	W `#F7F7F7`	0.07

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

Baillie of Polkemett Family Tartan Tartan Number: 206. Earliest known date: 1937 This sett was designed by Mr A.W. Geddes of Messrs William Anderson of Edinburgh in 1937. It is based on the MacKenzie tartan substituting three fine white lines on the green in place of the single stripe. It was designed for the Baillies of Polkemett. Geddes also produced a red sett for the Baillies around the same period. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.00
Stewart of Appin (Clan) — ΔT 0.70
Gordon of Esselmont (Clan) — ΔT 0.74
Campbell of Breadalbane (Military) — ΔT 0.77
Campbell of Breadalbane #2 — ΔT 0.83
Princess Louise — ΔT 0.87
Lumsden Green — ΔT 0.95
Forbes — ΔT 1.03
Ochiltree (Name) — ΔT 1.07
Mackenzie — ΔT 1.08

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.

ID: /setts/s17/db11k1db1k1db1k9g9w1g1w1g1w1g9k9db8k1db1~x4/