Caribou (District)
In pattern WBKBKGBGKBKRBRKBKBW.
This was sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 19 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/2056/
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 1982 — Caribou (District) (tartans-authority, record)
- 01/01/1990 — Caribou (register-of-tartans, record)
Thread count
LN/4 DR16 K4 B12 K4 G16 B4 G16 K4 B12 K4 N16 DB4 N16 K4 B12 K4 DR16 LN/4
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #2888C4 #2888C4 | B #2C4084 | 0.21 |
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | B #2C4084 | 0.14 |
| DR | #680028 #680028 | B #2C4084 | 0.20 |
| G | #289C18 #289C18 | G #006400 | 0.18 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
| N | #888888 #888888 | R #C80000 | 0.24 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Caribou District Tartan Tartan Number: 2056. Earliest known date: 1982 Proposed by the Caribou Islands District Fire Hall (Ladies Auxilary). Among the suggestions for the symbolic meaning of the colours it says, "Red for our sunsets, our lobsters, and our Fire Trucks". Caribou is in Pictou County, Nova Scotia. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.66
- Caribou — ΔT 0.89
- Chattahoochee River — ΔT 1.36
- Clauweart — ΔT 1.45
- Redgate (Name) — ΔT 1.45
- St. Margaret's School Edinburgh — ΔT 1.48
- Somerset — ΔT 1.48
- Dyer — ΔT 1.50
- Missouri Dress (Proposed) (District) — ΔT 1.52
- Unidentified Gordon variant — ΔT 1.55
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.
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