Nelson Mandela (Personal)
Bands: BGYKYGR · Stripes: DB G LY K LY G R DB G LY K LY G R
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3106
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/03/2005 — Nelson Mandela (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
- 2005, March — Nelson Mandela (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3106
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6601
Thread count
DB/54 G10 Y16 K40 Y6 G30 R/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #202060 #202060 | B #2A418A | 0.11 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacDonald, (Flora.. ) — ΔT 0.56
- MacWilliam — ΔT 0.70
- Junior Chamber International — ΔT 0.72
- Colquhoun #2 — ΔT 0.74
- Colquhoun — ΔT 0.80
- MacLeod of Assynt — ΔT 0.82
- Biskup — ΔT 0.82
- Coffield-Limesand (Personal) — ΔT 0.83
- Leslie, hunting — ΔT 0.84
- Cooke — ΔT 0.86
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.
ID: /setts/s7/db27g5ly8k20ly3g15r3~x2/