Ottawa (District)
Bands: RYWYWYBYBYBYWYWYWYBYBYBY · Stripes: R LO W LO W LO DB LO DB LO DB LO W LO W LO W LO B LO B LO B LO R LO W LO W LO DB LO DB LO DB LO W LO W LO W LO B LO B LO B LO
This was sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 24 band tartan.
Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/2021/
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 1966 — Ottawa (District) (tartans-authority, record)
- 21/11/1967 — Ottawa (register-of-tartans, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3277
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2021
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2021
Thread count
DR/4 DY24 LN4 DY4 LN4 DY4 DB8 DY4 DB12 DY4 DB8 DY4 LN4 DY4 LN4 DY24 LN8 DY28 B16 DY4 B16 DY4 B16 DY/28

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #2474E8 #2474E8 | B #2A418A | 0.19 |
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | B #2A418A | 0.14 |
| DR | #880000 #880000 | R #CC0000 | 0.15 |
| DY | #BC8C00 #BC8C00 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.16 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Ottawa — ΔT 0.80
- Ottawa District Tartan Tartan Number: 2021. Earliest known date: 1966 In two blocks - Navy Block ends on 14th colour change Gold 24. Azure Block starts on the following White 8. The design was accepted as the Official Tartan of Ottawa by order of the Council on November 21st 1966. In 1985 it was no longer in commercial production. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.37
- Miyuki #3 (Fashion) — ΔT 1.57
- Balmoral (Royal) — ΔT 1.60
- Balmoral (Green) (Royal) — ΔT 1.62
- Thistle Dubh — ΔT 1.64
- Beckett Beaumont — ΔT 1.66
- Abergaveny (Fashion) — ΔT 1.75
- Aelfleda Arisaid (Personal) — ΔT 1.83
- Balmoral — ΔT 1.84
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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