Duchess of Albany
In pattern RBKGKGKGKGKGBGBGKGKGKGKGKBY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 27 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1000
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1880 — Duchess of Albany (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1880 — Duchess of Albany (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
DY/4 DB44 K32 G6 K4 G4 K4 G24 K4 G4 K4 G6 DB16 G4 DB16 G6 K4 G4 K4 G24 K4 G4 K4 G6 K32 DB48 R/4
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 #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| DY | #D09800 #D09800 | Y #E8C000 | 0.11 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Duchess of Albany Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1378. Earliest known date: 1880 'Clan Originaux' was published in Paris in 1880 by J. Claude Fres Et Cie. It contains the earliest known record of a number of Irish tartans and many variations of Scottish Clan tartans. The only copy known to exist was discovered recently in America and is now in the possession of Pendleton Mills in Portland, Oregon. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.44
- Campbell of Argyll — ΔT 0.78
- Gordon #4 — ΔT 0.88
- O'Connor / Ochiltree — ΔT 0.96
- Scottish Rugby Union — ΔT 0.97
- Rankine — ΔT 0.98
- Ochiltree (Name) — ΔT 1.00
- Ochiltree Family Tartan Tartan Number: 321. Earliest known date: 1988 O'Sullivan McCragh was designed by Chris Aitken for Geoffrey (Tailor) Highland Crafts Ltd. in June 1994. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.00
- Killen (Name) — ΔT 1.08
- Campbell of Argyll Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1961. Earliest known date: 1810-15 This sett appears in the Cockburn Collection, (1815). Logan (1831). Vestiarium Scoticum (1842). Smibert (1850). Smith (1850). Grant (1886). The Setts No: 19 (1950). W & A K Johnston (1906). Like many of the earliest clan setts, the Campbell of Argyll, owes its origin to the post rebellion output of Wilson's of Bannockburn, whose monopoly on military supply dictated design. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.14
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.
ID: /setts/s27/r4b48k32g6k4g4k4g24k4g4k4g6b16g4b16g6k4g4k4g24k4g4k4g6k32b44y4-b2c2c80-g006818-k101010-rc80000-yd09800/