Bands: KGKRBW · Stripes: K G K R DB W K G K R DB W

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

Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/3179/

Attestations

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

• 1830-40 — Russell (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
• 01/01/1892 — Russell (register-of-tartans, record)

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

• Scottish Register of Tartans: 5146
• Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3179

Variants

Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.

• Galbraith
• Mitchell Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2142. Earliest known date: 1816-20 Named in honour of General Billy Mitchell when it was adopted as the tartan of the United States Air Force pipe band. The sett is also known as Russell, Hunter and Galbraith. The earliest reference to the tartan is in the collection of the Highland Society of London where it is labelled Galbraith. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
• Russell, or Mitchell or Hunter or Galbraith

Thread count

K/6 G20 K20 R6 DB16 W/6

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. Mitchell Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2142. Earliest known date: 1816-20 Named in honour of General Billy Mitchell when it was adopted as the tartan of the United States Air Force pipe band. The sett is also known as Russell, Hunter and Galbraith. The earliest reference to the tartan is in the collection of the Highland Society of London where it is labelled Galbraith. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.57
2. Gala Water Old — ΔT 0.85
3. Wellington, or Waterloo — ΔT 0.86
4. Dalmeny — ΔT 0.88
5. Davidson, Double — ΔT 0.96
6. Casely — ΔT 1.05
7. Friebe (2014) — ΔT 1.06
8. Gallowater Old District Tartan Tartan Number: 1025. Earliest known date: 1819 Both 'Old' and 'New' appear in Wilson's 1819 pattern book. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.06
9. MacKean Dress (Personal) — ΔT 1.07
10. Cooke — ΔT 1.08

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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