Bands: BWBWBW · Stripes: DP W DP W DP W DP W DP W DP W

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

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1128

Attestations

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

• 01/01/1980 — Erskine Purple (Dance) (register-of-tartans, record)
• 1980 — Erskine, Purple (Dance) (tartans-authority, record)

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

• Scottish Register of Tartans: 1128
• Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6534

Variants

Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.

• Erskine Purple (Dance) Fashion Tartan Tartan Number: 6534. Earliest known date: 01/01/1980 A dancers' tartan now woven by D C Dalgliesh of Selkirk. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015

Thread count

P/12 W6 P54 W54 P6 W/12

Palette

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

Sample pattern

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. Erskine Purple (Dance) Fashion Tartan Tartan Number: 6534. Earliest known date: 01/01/1980 A dancers' tartan now woven by D C Dalgliesh of Selkirk. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.85
2. MacLachlan (Chief's Dress) Blue — ΔT 1.45
3. Erskine Dress Burgandy Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1972. Earliest known date: 1971 A popular Dress tartan for Scottish Highland Dancing. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.53
4. Erskine, Burgundy (Dance) — ΔT 1.59
5. Erskine Blue (Dance) — ΔT 1.77
6. Buchanan Dress Blue (Dance) — ΔT 1.82
7. Lewis, Navy (Dance) — ΔT 1.85
8. Jeux Canada Games '87 (Corporate) — ΔT 1.85
9. Buchanan #5 — ΔT 1.90
10. Lewis, Magenta (Dance) — ΔT 1.91

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/dp2w1dp9w9dp1w2~x6/