Forbes VS
Bands: RGKGKY · Stripes: R DG K DG K LY R DG K DG K LY
This was sourced from weddslist. It is a 6 band tartan.
Original link http://www.weddslist.com/cgi-bin/tartans/pg.pl?source=rb
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2540
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2625
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2666
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3555
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3808
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1429
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 218
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1010
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1429
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1585
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 218
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 864
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
R/1 G16 K8 G3 K4 Y/1
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| G | #004C00 #004C00 | G #006100 | 0.07 |
| K | #000000 #000000 | K #000000 | 0.00 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| Y | #FFC800 #FFC800 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.03 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Forbes VS — ΔT 0.48
- MacLean VS — ΔT 1.10
- Gunn VS — ΔT 1.21
- Wesley Owen 2010 (Personal) — ΔT 1.24
- MacLean VS — ΔT 1.24
- Forbes — ΔT 1.26
- MacArthur (Variant) — ΔT 1.31
- O'Donoghue — ΔT 1.32
- Childers — ΔT 1.33
- Gunn — ΔT 1.36
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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