Shaw of Carolina (Personal)
Bands: GKGRBWGKGKBKBWBRBKBK · Stripes: G K G R DB W G K G K DB K DB W DB R DB K DB K G K G R DB W G K G K DB K DB W DB R 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=3777
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/12/2005 — Shaw of Carolina (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
- undated — 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 (house-of-tartan, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3777
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6803
Thread count
G/12 K6 G36 R8 DBa8 W8 G36 K6 G12 K6 DBa12 K6 DBa36 W8 DBa8 R8 DBa36 K6 DBa12 K/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| DBa | #202060 #202060 | B #2A418A | 0.11 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| O | #E86000 #E86000 | R #CC0000 | 0.14 |
| Oa | #D87C00 #D87C00 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| W | #F8F8F8 #F8F8F8 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Fyvie — ΔT 0.69
- Polaris Military — ΔT 0.77
- Blanton (Dress) — ΔT 0.77
- Lamquet (2015) — ΔT 0.83
- Allen, Christopher Holler — ΔT 0.85
- Gemmell Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 3213. Earliest known date: 2001 Design copyright is owned by Thomas Kempsill Gemmell and Davina Creighton Gemmell. Designed in traditional tartan colours. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.87
- Wilson's No.030 — ΔT 0.88
- MacKenzie MINI Clan Miniature Tartan Tartan Number: 2677. Earliest known date: 1778 Generated for Dupion Silk Stock list for display purpose. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.88
- Campbell of Argyll (no guards) — ΔT 0.89
- MacLeods Highlanders — ΔT 0.93
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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