Aberdeen University (1992)
Bands: YBKRY · Stripes: LY DB K R LY LY DB K R LY
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 5 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=20
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1992 — Aberdeen University (1992) (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1992 — Aberdeen University - 1992 (Corp.) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 20
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2152
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2152
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
Y/8 DB30 K24 R54 Y/8

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 #2A418A | 0.06 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C8002C #C8002C | R #CC0000 | 0.03 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Aberdeen University — ΔT 0.68
- Hamby Sport (Personal) — ΔT 1.02
- McGill University (Corporate) — ΔT 1.03
- Wcwm 759-2 — ΔT 1.05
- Brodie Dress — ΔT 1.13
- Thompson/Thomson/MacTavish — ΔT 1.19
- SAL Cubiska Stenen — ΔT 1.20
- Graham of Menteith, (Red) — ΔT 1.21
- MacTavish Thomson Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 228. Earliest known date: 1906 D.C. Stewart writes, " This tartan has recently (1950) come into use as being that appropriate to the Thomsons; Thomson is the anglicised form of the name MacTavish. It is not recorded in any of the early illustrated books. Many MacTavishes wear the Campbell of Argyll." Stewart may not have considered Johnston's publication in 1906 as 'early' and this may have been the source for the sett he recorded in the 'Setts of the Scottish Tartans' in 1950. Some versions show black in place of the mid blue stripe in this illustration. There is also the personal tartan of Lord Thomson of Fleet and a sett recorded in the 'Baronage of Angus and Mearns'. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.21
- MacKintosh-Geddes (Personal?) — ΔT 1.23
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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