Thompson Black (Fashion)
Bands: GKRGRK · Stripes: G K R G O K G K R G O K
This was sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 6 band tartan.
Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/3596/
Attestations
This cloth appears in 4 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- pre 1987 — Thompson Black (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
- pre 2002 — Lindsay Htg (Clan?) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — Thompson Black (register-of-tartans, record)
- undated — Lindsay Hunting Clan/Family Tartan Tartan Number: 5429. Earliest known date: pre 2002 Sample in STA Johnston Collection. The history of this is not known and it may just be a fashion tartan from Pringles. The sett is the same as Thompson. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 5196
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3596
Thread count
G/12 K60 R32 G8 N32 K/8

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| N | #888888 #888888 | R #CC0000 | 0.24 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Portrait, The — ΔT 0.63
- MacMillan - 2002 (Black - Unofficial — ΔT 0.74
- British Hills — ΔT 0.75
- Eyre (Personal) — ΔT 0.93
- Wcwm 759-3 — ΔT 0.99
- Daks — ΔT 1.00
- Manson Family Tartan Tartan Number: 987. Earliest known date: 1983 The official recording of the sett shows the letter G for the dark green stripe. In heraldic terms this means 'Gules' - red. The designer, Hugh Kirkwood Rankine, clearly intended dark green and this is reproduced here. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.00
- Montrose — ΔT 1.03
- Montrose — ΔT 1.03
- Scottish Ballet — 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.
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