Birse

March 18, 2023 ⌗ Edit this in the TTD

Bands: KGKYBR · Stripes: K G K LO N R K G K LO N R

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

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=265

Attestations

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

01/01/1957 — Birse (register-of-tartans, record)
pre 1957 — Birse (Name) (tartans-authority, record)

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

Scottish Register of Tartans: 265
Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1087
Scottish Tartans World Register: 1087

Thread count

K/8 G32 K28 DY6 Ba32 R/8 Sett

Palette

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

Colour	Shade	Base	ΔE (OKLab)
B	`#5C8CA8` `#5C8CA8`	B `#2A418A`	0.23
Ba	`#105880` `#105880`	B `#2A418A`	0.07
DY	`#BC8C00` `#BC8C00`	Y `#F2BF00`	0.16
G	`#00643C` `#00643C`	G `#006100`	0.05
K	`#101010` `#101010`	K `#000000`	0.17
LG	`#789484` `#789484`	G `#006100`	0.24
R	`#C80000` `#C80000`	R `#CC0000`	0.01
Y	`#F0C800` `#F0C800`	Y `#F2BF00`	0.02

Sample pattern

Tartan detail

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

Wellington — ΔT 0.79
Cooke (Personal) — ΔT 0.80
Davidson of Tulloch #2 — ΔT 0.83
MacEachain (Clan) — ΔT 0.88
Casely — ΔT 0.89
Casely (Name) — ΔT 0.91
Hogarth of Firhill — ΔT 0.96
Dyce #3 — ΔT 0.96
MacDonald (Flora.. ) — ΔT 0.98
Hogarth of Firhill #2 — ΔT 0.99

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/k4g16k14lo3n16r4~x2/