Sommerville
In pattern WRRRBRGRRRBRGRGRRY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 stripes 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)
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 #2C4084 | 0.07 |
| DBa | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| DR | #4C0000 #4C0000 | B #2C4084 | 0.24 |
| DRa | #A00000 #A00000 | R #C80000 | 0.09 |
| DY | #D09800 #D09800 | Y #E8C000 | 0.11 |
| G | #285800 #285800 | G #006400 | 0.04 |
| Ga | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
| LR | #E87878 #E87878 | R #C80000 | 0.19 |
| N | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.16 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Sommerville Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1861. Earliest known date: 1930 The specimen in the Society's collection was obtained about 1930 from the firm J Johnston of Edinburgh. It was descibed at the time as a modern family tartan. The cloth archive also contains a sample from the Lochcarron weavers. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.25
- Sommerville — ΔT 0.50
- Dundas, (Red) — ΔT 0.68
- Dundas (Red) — ΔT 0.72
- MacDougall, of MacDougall — ΔT 0.85
- 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
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 15726 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/w4r6ra12r96b8r4g32ra10r6ra10b40r10g6r10g108r6ra10y4-b2c2c80-g006818-rc80000-rae87878-we0e0e0-ye8c000/