Blue Boy, The (Fashion)
Bands: BGBBWBW · Stripes: DB G DB DB W DB W DB G DB DB W DB W
This was sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 7 band tartan.
Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/3705/
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 1972 — Blue Boy, The (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — Blue Boy, The (register-of-tartans, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 5371
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3705
Thread count
DBa/4 G28 DBa28 DB8 W24 DBa4 W/4

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #00008C #00008C | B #2A418A | 0.13 |
| DBa | #000064 #000064 | B #2A418A | 0.18 |
| G | #007800 #007800 | G #006100 | 0.07 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Strathclyde — ΔT 0.95
- Loch Leven, Check — ΔT 1.03
- Loch Leven Check Trade Tartan Tartan Number: 108. Earliest known date: 1976 Sample presented by Clan Crest Textiles Ltd in 1976. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.06
- Business Air — ΔT 1.22
- Bannockbane Blue #1 — ΔT 1.24
- Thompson (Dance) — ΔT 1.28
- Strathclyde — ΔT 1.32
- Investors Group — ΔT 1.40
- Breton District Tartan Tartan Number: 3902. Earliest known date: 2001 Commissioned by Richard Duclos of Le Coudray-Montceaux, France and produced by House of Tartan. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.41
- Sibbald Blue (2014) — ΔT 1.43
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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