Black Watch
Bands: BKBKBKGKGKBKBGKGKBKB · Stripes: DB K DB K DB K DG K DG K DB K DB DG K DG K DB K DB DB K DB K DB K DG K DG K DB K DB DG K DG K DB K DB
This was sourced from weddslist. It is a 20 band tartan.
Original link http://www.weddslist.com/cgi-bin/tartans/pg.pl?source=rb
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2540
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2666
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3808
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 218
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1010
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1585
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 218
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
DB/12 K1 DB1 K1 DB1 K8 G8 K1 G8 K8 DB8 K1 DB1 G6 K1 G6 K3 DB4 K1 DB/1

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #00004C #00004C | B #2A418A | 0.21 |
| G | #004C00 #004C00 | G #006100 | 0.07 |
| K | #000000 #000000 | K #000000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Campbell — ΔT 0.98
- Campbell — ΔT 1.08
- Stewart Old — ΔT 1.27
- Royal Regiment of Scotland (Mltry) — ΔT 1.29
- Sutherland — ΔT 1.34
- Black Watch — ΔT 1.37
- Forbes — ΔT 1.38
- Forbes — ΔT 1.38
- Urquhart L — ΔT 1.39
- Breadalbane Fencibles — ΔT 1.44
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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