Forfar District Tartan Tartan Number: 6238. Earliest known date: 01/03/2004 Designed by Arthur Mackie of The Strathmore Woollen Co. Ltd of Forfar which is the county town of Angus in Scotland. Historically Forfar has royal connections with King Malcolm II and III, Alexander II and III and King Robert the Bruce, all of whom favoured the town which resulted in Forfar being created as a Royal Burgh in the mid 12th century. The colours of the tartan are from the Coat of Arms displayed in the Council Chambers and the tartan has been approved by the town's Community Council. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
In pattern BYBWYWBBBRBBBWYWBY.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 18 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=6238
Thread count
Ba/6 Ya2 Ba46 W40 LT2 W8 B44 Ba8 B8 R2 B8 Ba8 B44 W8 LT2 W40 Ba46 Ya/2
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #1474B4 #1474B4 | B #2C4084 | 0.15 |
| Ba | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | B #2C4084 | 0.23 |
| LT | #A08858 #A08858 | Y #E8C000 | 0.21 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F4F4F0 | 0.03 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
| Ya | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
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