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
Bands: RBKRKBKWKRKRBRBRBR · Stripes: R T K R K T K W K R K R DB R DB R DB R R T K R K T K W K R K R DB R DB R DB R
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 18 band tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1343
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
DR/4 B6 K1 DR2 K1 B14 K3 LN3 K2 DR2 K2 DR2 DB4 DR2 DB6 DR2 DB6 DR/3
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | B #2A418A | 0.23 |
| DB | #202060 #202060 | B #2A418A | 0.11 |
| DR | #901C38 #901C38 | R #CC0000 | 0.13 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Royal Canadian Air Force — ΔT 0.64
- Royal Canadian Air Force #2 — ΔT 0.92
- Royal Canadian Air Force — ΔT 0.97
- Pride of Loch Leven (Fashion?) — ΔT 1.15
- Graham of Airth — ΔT 1.16
- Royal Canadian Air Force — ΔT 1.18
- Auld Alliance — ΔT 1.21
- Royal Canadian Air Force (Military) — ΔT 1.23
- Popular — ΔT 1.23
- Scottish Womens Rural Institute (Cor — ΔT 1.27
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/s18/r4t6k1r2k1t14k3w3k2r2k2r2db4r2db6r2db6r3/