Gow
Bands: RBRGR · Stripes: R DB R DG R R DB R DG R
This was sourced from weddslist. It is a 5 band tartan.
Original link http://www.weddslist.com/cgi-bin/tartans/pg.pl?source=rb
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 1166
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 1510
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 1758
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2307
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2349
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2540
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2582
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2585
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2625
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2666
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2730
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2862
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3072
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3555
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3808
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 4925
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 696
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 697
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 982
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1277
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1429
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 218
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 977
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1010
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1042
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 127
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1277
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1399
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1429
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1585
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1593
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 218
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2218
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 3061
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 441
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 737
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 858
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 864
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 873
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 897
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 977
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 978
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
R/8 DB8 R2 G8 R/8

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #00004C #00004C | B #2A418A | 0.21 |
| G | #004C00 #004C00 | G #006100 | 0.07 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacGowan — ΔT 0.87
- Gow — ΔT 0.88
- Unidentified (Gow-like) — ΔT 1.23
- Gow (Portrait) — ΔT 1.27
- Eastern Kentucky University — ΔT 1.44
- MacDuff #3 — ΔT 1.53
- Tulsa, City of — ΔT 1.56
- Fiddes (Corrected) — ΔT 1.65
- MacDuff — ΔT 1.71
- Unidentified item — ΔT 1.73
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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