Gunn Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 708. Earliest known date: c.1810-15 The Cockburn collection, housed in the Mitchell library in Glasgow, contains some of the oldest actual specimens of clan tartans in existance today. James Logan recorded the sett in his book 'The Scottish Gael' in 1831. The central blue stripes are often reproduced in black or very dark blue, giving the impression of four equally toned stripes. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015

March 18, 2023 ⌗ Edit this in the TTD

In pattern GBGKGR.

This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 6 stripes tartan.

Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=708

Thread count

G/2 DB24 G2 K24 G24 R/4 Sett

Palette

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

Colour	Shade	Base	ΔE (OKLab)
DB	`#2C2C80` `#2C2C80`	B `#2C4084`	0.05
G	`#006818` `#006818`	G `#006400`	0.02
K	`#101010` `#101010`	K `#000000`	0.17
R	`#C80000` `#C80000`	R `#C80000`	0.00

Sample pattern

Tartan detail

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

Gunn — ΔT 0.38
Reid and Taylor — ΔT 0.53
Black Watch (Coarse Kilt) — ΔT 0.56
Ferguson of Balquhidder #2 — ΔT 0.61
National Galleries of Scotland Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2050. Earliest known date: November 1991 Based on the Black Watch or Government tartan. The three claret stripes represent the three galleries and the colour is that of William Playfair's original colour scheme for the National Gallery. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.65
National Galleries of Scotland — ΔT 0.66
Dundas #2 — ΔT 0.70
Renfrew — ΔT 0.73
Bedford High School — ΔT 0.73

Neighbour map

Every grey dot is one of 15726 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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