Blue

Bands: BRBBBW · Stripes: N R N T DB W N R N T DB W

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

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=301

Attestations

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

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

Thread count

N/28 R8 N28 Ba30 DB26 W/6 Sett

Palette

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

ColourShadeBaseΔE (OKLab)
B#3070FC #3070FCB #2A418A0.21
Ba#5C8CA8 #5C8CA8B #2A418A0.23
DB#000078 #000078B #2A418A0.15
N#404C64 #404C64B #2A418A0.08
R#C80000 #C80000R #CC00000.01
W#FFFFFF #FFFFFFW #F7F7F70.02

Sample pattern

Tartan detail

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

  1. Fox-Eves Wedding — ΔT 0.92
  2. Blue — ΔT 0.94
  3. Fox-Eves Wedding (Personal) — ΔT 1.15
  4. Gandy of Myrton (Name) — ΔT 1.31
  5. Loch Katrine — ΔT 1.50
  6. Hummelt, Katherine (Personal) — ΔT 1.50
  7. Wellington No 229 — ΔT 1.51
  8. Forbo Nairn Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2298. Earliest known date: pre 2002 Designed for Forbo Nairn Ltd - a Swiss based company with two factories in Kirkcaldy, Fife. Tartan is based on the Nairn (#1331) because of an association with Michael Nairn, builder of the first 'floor cloth' (linoleum) factory in Scotland in 1843.STS said Approved by Sir Robert Spencer Nairn. Blue and red used in this graphic in place of dark blue and red so that sett could be seen. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.52
  9. Forbo Nairn — ΔT 1.52
  10. Unidentified (Sock Tie) — ΔT 1.56

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.

Fox-Eves WeddingBlueFox-Eves Wedding (Personal)Gandy of Myrton (Name)Loch KatrineHummelt, Katherine (Personal)Wellington No 229Forbo Nairn Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2298. Earliest known date: pre 2002 Designed for Forbo Nairn Ltd - a Swiss based company with two factories in Kirkcaldy, Fife. Tartan is based on the Nairn (#1331) because of an association with Michael Nairn, builder of the first 'floor cloth' (linoleum) factory in Scotland in 1843.STS said Approved by Sir Robert Spencer Nairn. Blue and red used in this graphic in place of dark blue and red so that sett could be seen. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015Forbo NairnUnidentified (Sock Tie)

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