Scottish Motor Trade Association
In pattern BGBKWBBWBWBWBBWKBGBG.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 20 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3729
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/07/1997 — Scottish Motor Trade Association (register-of-tartans, record)
- undated — Scottish Motor Trade Association Trade Tartan Tartan Number: 2392. Earliest known date: 1903 This is a corporate tartan for the Scottish Motor Trade Association which was established in 1903. Tartan Society threadcount different - G/12 DB4 LG54 B26 K4 W8 DB18 B44 W3 DB12 W/4. Its graphic - and that of the STWR - is incorrect in that what is recorded G/12 for the first pivot actually shows as dark blue. (BW Feb 2005). See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Thread count
B/4 G32 B20 K4 LN6 DB12 B28 LN4 DB8 LN4 DB8 LN4 B28 DB12 LN6 K4 B20 G32 B4 G/10

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 |
| DBa | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
| N | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.16 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Scottish Motor Trade Assoc. (Corp) — ΔT 1.23
- Shedor (2013) — ΔT 1.34
- Copar a'Beannichte Dress Family Tartan Tartan Number: 6484. Earliest known date: 2004 The name of the tartan is constructed in Gaelic from the Dutch van Koperen and the French Benoist to mean the Blessed Copper, a tribute to Mrs Y Ch van Koperen-Benoist. The green represents oxidised copper of the Koperens and blue the Benoist family. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.39
- Shaw of Carolina Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 6803. Earliest known date: 2005 Based on a cloth fragment and a description of a tartan blanket worn by Mary Irvine for her husband, John Shaw c.1800. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.40
- Stephenson Hunting #2 — ΔT 1.43
- Blanton (Dress) — ΔT 1.48
- Campbell of Argyll (no guards) — ΔT 1.49
- Stinson — ΔT 1.49
- Healy (Suspect) — ΔT 1.50
- Polaris Military — ΔT 1.51
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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