James of Wales

Bands: KYRBYBRBRBKBRKBKRBKBRBRBYBRY · Stripes: K LO R DB LO DB R DB R DB K DB R K DB K R DB K DB R DB R DB LO DB R LO K LO R DB LO DB R DB R DB K DB R K DB K R DB K DB R DB R DB LO DB R LO

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 28 band tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1880

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

• Scottish Register of Tartans: 1880
• Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5736

Thread count

DY/4 DR14 DB22 DY2 DB22 DR14 DB8 DR6 DB12 K2 DB12 DR6 K2 DB22 K2 DR6 DB12 K2 DB12 DR6 DB8 DR14 DB22 DY2 DB22 DR14 DY4 K/8

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. James Welsh Name Tartan Tartan Number: 5736. Earliest known date: Unknown The tartan for this Welsh surname and it's variants, Jacob, Jago, Jamie, Jamison, Jaymes, Jayume, Jamsey, Jem, Jemes and Gimson, is actually woven in Wales at the Cambrian Woollen Mill, weaving on the same site since 1830. This tartan differs from many traditional patterns in that the warp and weft differ, giving the finished worsted wool cloth more of a predominant stripe, vertically noticeable in the finished Kilt, or Cilt in Wales. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.28
2. Fleming Commemorative Tartan Tartan Number: 2531. Earliest known date: 1997 Kilt was created for Scotland Flanders 2002 as a cultural exchange product. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.60
3. Greyhound Grenadiers Pipe Band — ΔT 1.68
4. Henbury — ΔT 1.85
5. MacRae (MacCrae) — ΔT 1.96
6. James (Welsh Name) — ΔT 2.12
7. Fleming/Frisken/Flanders — ΔT 2.15
8. Burns, Virginia (Personal) — ΔT 2.18
9. Thomas Blake Glover Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2416. Earliest known date: 1996 Two versions of this and it is not known at this stage which is correct. From Lochcarron 1996. According to STS 'Tartans' 1996 this was designed by Johnsons of Elgin for the Thomas Blake Glover Heritage Centre. Thomas Blake Glover was born in Fraserburgh, Scotland. He was the founder of Mitsubishi, the Japanese Mint and the Jappanese ship building industry circa 1860. His house in Nagasaki has over 2 milion visitors a year. STS wesbite version use three colours as against the four in this (original?) version. Sample in STA's Johnston Collection. Alsowoven by Lochcarron See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 2.19
10. Bredillet (Personal) — ΔT 2.20

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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