Nairn Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1331. Earliest known date: c.1930 The exact date of this design is uncertain. We know that it appeared around 1930 in the collection of Messrs. Anderson of Edinburgh. (Later Kinloch Anderson). A note on the weavers scale in the STS collection states '..worn by the Spencer-Nairn family. (done)'. The design is similar to the Hunting Brodie sett without the yellow. Nairns were first recorded in Fife and later in Moray. There is also a family called Nairne of Dunsinnan in Perthshire of MacBeth fame. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
In pattern RBGKR.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 5 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1331
Thread count
R/4 DB16 G8 K32 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 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Nairn — ΔT 0.00
- MacArthur of Milton (Clan) — ΔT 1.04
- Britannia — ΔT 1.05
- Mayer, Chris (Personal) — ΔT 1.06
- Givens (Arizona) — ΔT 1.11
- MacArthur of Milton Hunting Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 700. Earliest known date: 1823 This is the older of the two MacArthur setts, which links the clan with the Campbells. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.11
- The Harbour Town, Hilton Head — ΔT 1.22
- Givens (Arizona) — ΔT 1.26
- Fibonacci7 — ΔT 1.28
- Glen Nevis #1 (Fashion) — ΔT 1.28
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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