Scottish Tourist Board (1981)
Bands: BKBKBKGRGRGRGRGKBKBK · Stripes: DB K DB K DB K G R G R G R G R G K DB K DB K DB K DB K DB K G R G R G R G R G K DB K DB K
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 20 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3747
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3747
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 239
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 239
Thread count
DBa/60 K4 DBa4 K4 DBa4 K64 G30 R4 G8 R8 G60 R8 G8 R4 G30 K64 DBa4 K4 DBa4 K/4
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #202060 #202060 | B #2A418A | 0.11 |
| DBa | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | G #006100 | 0.15 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Stewart/Stuart — ΔT 0.77
- Riddoch Personal Tartan Tartan Number: 5856. Earliest known date: circa 1992 Designed by Tony Murray for an Albert (Bert) Riddoch of Bearsden, Glasgow as a private and personal tartan initially but it was then changed to usage by anyone of the name. Bert Riddoch (2002) is a private investgator involved in covert drugs investigations and 'highly thought of by the police'. Tartan based on Campbell of Breadalbane. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.88
- Buchan — ΔT 0.89
- MacDonald — ΔT 0.91
- Cumming/Buchan Hunting — ΔT 0.97
- Stewart of Appin (Clan) — ΔT 0.98
- Kettles, Ryan & Alan (Personal) — ΔT 1.01
- Ranking Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 3242. Earliest known date: 2002 Personal/Family tartan for the Ranking family and its close relatives as determined by the current head of the family. A minor variation of Rankine tartan. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.07
- Norwich No.023 — ΔT 1.16
- Hope-Vere/Weir — ΔT 1.18
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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