Sommerville
Bands: WRRRBRGRRRBRGRGRRY · Stripes: W R R R DB R G R R R DB R G R G R R LY W R R R DB R G R R R DB R G R G R R LY
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3835
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1930 — Sommerville (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1930 — Somerville (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3835
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1861
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1861
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
LN/4 R6 LR12 R96 DBa8 R4 Ga32 LR10 R6 LR10 DBa40 R10 Ga6 R10 Ga108 R6 LR10 Y/4
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | B #2A418A | 0.08 |
| DBa | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| DR | #4C0000 #4C0000 | B #2A418A | 0.25 |
| DRa | #A00000 #A00000 | R #CC0000 | 0.09 |
| DY | #D09800 #D09800 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.12 |
| G | #285800 #285800 | G #006100 | 0.03 |
| Ga | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| LR | #E87878 #E87878 | R #CC0000 | 0.19 |
| N | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Sommerville — ΔT 0.50
- Dundas, (Red) — ΔT 0.68
- Dundas (Red) — ΔT 0.72
- MacDougall, of MacDougall — ΔT 0.86
- O'Keefe — ΔT 1.03
- MacDougall of MacDougall — ΔT 1.04
- MacDougall 7 — ΔT 1.07
- Westwood — ΔT 1.07
- Mehrtens (Personal) — ΔT 1.08
- Berwick District Tartan Tartan Number: 2011. Earliest known date: 1981 Marygate Weavers of Berwick upon Tweed organised a competition to design a tartan to commemorate the historic past of the town. Alison Wilkinson from Wooler, Northumberland, a pupil in the third form at Berwick High School, won the prize of £50. The tartan is also produced in a symetrical form. (STS archives) See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.11
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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