Thomson Dress (Blue)
Bands: RBKWKY · Stripes: R B K W K LY R B K W K LY
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4123
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1965 — Thomson Dress (Blue) (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1965 — Thomson Dress (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 4123
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5130
Thread count
R/6 B60 K12 LN24 K24 Y/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #1870A4 #1870A4 | B #2A418A | 0.13 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacTavish Dress — ΔT 0.66
- Afternoon Tea / Earl Grey — ΔT 0.70
- MacTavish / Thom(p)son, dress — ΔT 0.72
- Bahamas District Tartan Tartan Number: 2089. Earliest known date: 1966 Designed by Gordon Rees of the Scottish Shop in Nassau, now owned by Colin and Beverley Honnes. It was intended to perpetuate the memory of early Scottish settlers in the Bahamas including Thompson, Sands, Forsythe, Munroe, Johnston, Russell, Christie, Roberts, Kelly, MacKinney, Saunders, Malcolm, Crawford, MacPherson, Clark and Rae. The tartan was formally approved by the Bahamas Government in 1966. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.79
- Loyalhanna — ΔT 0.86
- Clunie (Name) — ΔT 0.88
- Loch Ness (Fashion) — ΔT 0.90
- Sinclair dress — ΔT 1.02
- Clunie (Personal) — ΔT 1.02
- Bahamas — ΔT 1.04
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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