Herd/Hurd

March 18, 2023 ⌗ Edit this in the TTD

Bands: BGKWBW · Stripes: DB G K W DB W DB G K W DB W

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 band tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1691

Attestations

This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.

01/01/1978 — Herd/Hurd (register-of-tartans, record)
1978 — Herd/Hurd (Name) (tartans-authority, record)

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

Scottish Register of Tartans: 1691
Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 170
Scottish Tartans World Register: 170

Variants

Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.

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

Thread count

DBa/6 G24 K26 W4 DBa26 W/6 Sett

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

Colour	Shade	Base	ΔE (OKLab)
B	`#2474E8` `#2474E8`	B `#2A418A`	0.19
DB	`#1C0070` `#1C0070`	B `#2A418A`	0.14
DBa	`#2C2C80` `#2C2C80`	B `#2A418A`	0.06
G	`#006818` `#006818`	G `#006100`	0.02
K	`#101010` `#101010`	K `#000000`	0.17
N	`#B8B8B8` `#B8B8B8`	Y `#F2BF00`	0.17
P	`#6840FC` `#6840FC`	B `#2A418A`	0.20
W	`#FCFCFC` `#FCFCFC`	W `#F7F7F7`	0.01

Sample pattern

Tartan detail

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

Edinburgh Tattoo 50th (Commemorative — ΔT 0.77
Unidentified No 26 — ΔT 0.79
Unnamed, No 26 — ΔT 0.81
Murray — ΔT 0.86
Campbell, The White Stripe — ΔT 0.90
Melville — ΔT 0.90
Douglas Green — ΔT 0.91
Fletcher of Dunans — ΔT 0.92
Wellington, or Waterloo — ΔT 0.93
Wellington, or Waterloo — ΔT 0.95

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/db3g12k13w2db13w3~x2/