Polaris Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 222. Earliest known date: 1964 Designed for the Officers and men of the American Submarine base at the Holy Loch - making the Polaris submarine the first ship in history to have its own tartan. The idea came from Captain Walter F Schlech, Commander of the submarine squadron. The arrangement of stripes between the cornflower yellows is blue-sky-blue (Dalgliesh). It was previously recorded as green-blue-green (STS). The sindex card created by Davidson c1964 is Black-Royal Blue-Black. The sky blue version was recently confirmed as the correct one by R. E. Trygstad, LCDR USN (Retired), who has in his possession an original scarf with the sky blue colours. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
Bands: BKBKBKGYBWBYGKBKB · Stripes: DB K DB K DB K DG LY DB LB DB LY DG K DB K DB DB K DB K DB K DG LY DB LB DB LY DG K DB K DB
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 17 band tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=222
Thread count
DBa/24 K4 DBa4 K4 DBa4 K28 G24 Y4 DBa4 LP4 DBa4 Y4 G24 K28 DBa28 K4 DBa/4
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2800A8 #2800A8 | B #2A418A | 0.11 |
| DBa | #202060 #202060 | B #2A418A | 0.11 |
| G | #005028 #005028 | G #006100 | 0.07 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LP | #8CA0F0 #8CA0F0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.28 |
| N | #3C3C60 #3C3C60 | B #2A418A | 0.07 |
| Y | #E0B000 #E0B000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.05 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Stephenson Htg (Name) — ΔT 0.54
- Cumbernauld District Tartan Tartan Number: 1566. Earliest known date: 1987 The Cumbernauld tartan is the same as the MacKenzie, except for a change in the colour scheme. Ancient green was incorporated with modern blue, black and red to represent a new thriving community, proud of its heritage. Cumbernauld is one of Scotlands new towns. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.55
- Urquhart (Brydone) — ΔT 0.57
- Van Ingelgem (Personal) — ΔT 0.81
- Cumbernauld — ΔT 0.87
- Baillie (William Wilson) — ΔT 0.98
- MacLeod of Gesto — ΔT 1.04
- Forbes #2 — ΔT 1.06
- 78th Regiment (Highlanders) (Mil.) — ΔT 1.07
- O'Connor, Hugh (Personal) — ΔT 1.09
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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