Atholl Highlanders (Military)
Bands: RGKBKR · Stripes: R DG K DB K R R DG K DB K R
This was sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 6 band tartan.
Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/3017/
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- pre 2002 — Atholl Highlanders (Military) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — Atholl Highlanders (register-of-tartans, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 5144
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3017
Thread count
DO/16 G40 K40 DB40 K6 DO/16

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | B #2A418A | 0.14 |
| DO | #D05054 #D05054 | R #CC0000 | 0.09 |
| G | #005448 #005448 | G #006100 | 0.10 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Edinburgh Military Tattoo 50th — ΔT 1.12
- MacEachain (Clan) — ΔT 1.15
- Selkirk (Personal) — ΔT 1.20
- Cooke (Personal) — ΔT 1.22
- MacLaren #2 — ΔT 1.24
- Unidentified No 60 — ΔT 1.25
- Martin Hunting — ΔT 1.28
- Selkirk (Name) — ΔT 1.31
- Baillie (Highland Society) — ΔT 1.31
- Wilson's No.100 — ΔT 1.31
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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