Aberdeen (Johnston and Smith)
Bands: KBWBKBWBKWKRGWGRKRWGR · Stripes: K DP W DP K DP W DP K W K R Y W Y R K R W Y R K DP W DP K DP W DP K W K R Y W Y R K R W Y R
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 21 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=14
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 14
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2948
Thread count
K/2 DP8 LN26 DP2 K10 P8 LN2 P8 K10 LN2 K6 R10 N6 LN2 N6 R10 K26 R2 LN40 N6 R/2

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DP | #500050 #500050 | B #2A418A | 0.17 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| N | #808080 #808080 | G #006100 | 0.23 |
| P | #5A008C #5A008C | B #2A418A | 0.13 |
| R | #DC0000 #DC0000 | R #CC0000 | 0.03 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Aberdeen Dress (Dance) — ΔT 0.19
- MacCulloch Dress Clan/Family Tartan Tartan Number: 3346. Earliest known date: 2000 Designed by Peter MacDonald for a Mr McCullogh in the USA. For use by all of the name MacCullogh/MacCulloch and variants. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.74
- Royal Stewart, (Variant) — ΔT 0.87
- Royal Stuart/Stewart (Variant) — ΔT 0.88
- Anderson — ΔT 0.90
- Declaration of Scottish Independence — ΔT 0.92
- Hebridean Arisaid Red (Dance) — ΔT 0.95
- Anderson P — ΔT 0.98
- Cooper Dress (Dalgleish #2) (Dance) — ΔT 1.04
- MacBeth Dress (Clan) — ΔT 1.06
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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