Herd Family Tartan Tartan Number: 170. Earliest known date: 1978 Woven for the wedding of William Hurd to Heather Petit. From JCT: STS monitoring committee recorded 1978. In march 2005. STS Record has the application being made by Councillor R J Herd, C.Eng, M.I.C.E., A.M.B.I.M. who had been granted arms by Lord Lyon. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
Bands: BGKWBW · Stripes: DB G K W DB W DB G K W DB W
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 6 band tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=170
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
DB/4 G24 K26 LN2 DB26 LN/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 #2A418A | 0.06 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Oceanic (Corporate?) — ΔT 0.72
- Dress Watch — ΔT 0.85
- Campbell of Argyll (Smiths) — ΔT 0.86
- MacKirdy — ΔT 0.90
- Gunn — ΔT 0.91
- Skibo — ΔT 0.93
- Unidentified No 26 — ΔT 0.94
- Gammell (1978) (Personal) — ΔT 0.97
- New York Fire Department Pipe Band — ΔT 1.00
- Blair — ΔT 1.03
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.
ID: /setts/s6/db2g12k13w1db13w2~x2/