Matheson Hunting (Blue)
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This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 21 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4852
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1985 — Matheson Hunting (Blue) (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1995 — Matheson (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 4852
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3458
Thread count
LG/32 DB16 LG4 DB4 LG4 DB96 K32 LG16 DB4 LG4 DB4 LG16 DB32 LG4 DB4 LG4 DB4 K32 LG32 DB8 LG/8

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 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LG | #789484 #789484 | G #006100 | 0.24 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Matheson, hunting — ΔT 1.27
- Hood (Artefact) — ΔT 1.33
- MacDonald, Lord of the Isles Hunting #2 — ΔT 1.34
- Home (Clans Originaux) — ΔT 1.34
- MacDonald Lord of the Isles Hunting — ΔT 1.38
- Scottish Knights Templar International — ΔT 1.44
- MacDonald Lord of the Isles Portrait Tartan Tartan Number: 618. Earliest known date: pre 1893 From a painting in Armadale Castle, discovered by D. W. Stewart for his book, 'Old and Rare Scottish Tartans' published in 1893. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.48
- Agincourt — ΔT 1.52
- MacDonald Lord of the Isles Hunting — ΔT 1.53
- Hope-Vere/Weir — ΔT 1.53
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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