Nobiliary Fraternity
In pattern BBKGY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 5 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3144
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1819 — Nobiliary Fraternity (register-of-tartans, record)
- c 1819 — Nobiliary Fraternity. . .(Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
Pa/22 Ba4 K20 G20 Y/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #2888C4 #2888C4 | B #2C4084 | 0.21 |
| Ba | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | B #2C4084 | 0.23 |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | G #006400 | 0.16 |
| DP | #440044 #440044 | B #2C4084 | 0.17 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| P | #9050D8 #9050D8 | B #2C4084 | 0.22 |
| Pa | #780078 #780078 | B #2C4084 | 0.16 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Selkirk (Name) — ΔT 0.46
- Friebe (2014) — ΔT 0.54
- MacCaughan, or MacEachain — ΔT 0.78
- Thompson's Fancy (Fashion) — ΔT 0.82
- Wilson's, No 217 — ΔT 0.84
- Dalmeny (Wlison's) Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1480. Earliest known date: 1819 Restricted See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.90
- Birse Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1087. Earliest known date: 1930-50 This sample comes from the MacGregor-Hastie collection which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. Some of the samples, including this one, were unmarked. One can assume that the sample dates between 1930 and 1950. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.97
- Selkirk (Personal) — ΔT 1.01
- Mitchell Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2142. Earliest known date: 1816-20 Named in honour of General Billy Mitchell when it was adopted as the tartan of the United States Air Force pipe band. The sett is also known as Russell, Hunter and Galbraith. The earliest reference to the tartan is in the collection of the Highland Society of London where it is labelled Galbraith. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.01
- Cooke — ΔT 1.06
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.
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