Drambuie
Bands: WRKYKY · Stripes: W R K LO K LY W R K LO 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=972
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1998 — Drambuie (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1998 — Drambuie (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 972
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2474
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2474
Thread count
LN/6 DR36 K48 LT4 K5 Y/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR | #880000 #880000 | R #CC0000 | 0.15 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| LT | #A08858 #A08858 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.21 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Drambuie Dress — ΔT 0.78
- Totté (from Hofstade de Baerebeeck) (Personal) — ΔT 0.93
- Papua New Guinea — ΔT 0.93
- Drambuie — ΔT 1.02
- Wormeck (2013) Germany — ΔT 1.08
- Drambuie dress — ΔT 1.10
- Papua New Guinea Pipes and Drums — ΔT 1.11
- Sreijsener (Name) — ΔT 1.26
- Hoffman Texas German — ΔT 1.32
- Fraser VS — ΔT 1.32
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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