Scotsman

Bands: BBKBGKG · Stripes: DP DB K DB G K G DP DB K DB G K G

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 band tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3687

Attestations

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

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

Thread count

G/42 K28 G18 DB42 K6 DB24 P/6 Sett

Palette

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

ColourShadeBaseΔE (OKLab)
DB#2C2C80 #2C2C80B #2A418A0.06
G#006818 #006818G #0061000.02
K#101010 #101010K #0000000.17
P#780078 #780078B #2A418A0.17

Sample pattern

Tartan detail

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

  1. MacKay — ΔT 0.65
  2. MacCallum — ΔT 0.80
  3. Gallamore — ΔT 0.80
  4. Wilson's No 108 — ΔT 0.81
  5. Scottish Airports Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2510. Earliest known date: November 1988 An archetypal Kinloch Anderson blue design. Scottish Tartan Society notes say that Percy Pilcher (an early aviation pioneer 1866 -1899) had connections to the Gunn tartan (his mother was a Robinson). The design is based on that sett using the colours of the British Airports Authority with the purple line added to represent the Scottish thistle. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.82
  6. Ferguson of Balquhidder #3 — ΔT 0.84
  7. Blaylock Annandale (Name) — ΔT 0.84
  8. Graham of Menteith — ΔT 0.88
  9. Murray #3 — ΔT 0.88
  10. Graham of Montrose — ΔT 0.88

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.

MacKayMacCallumGallamoreWilson's No 108Scottish Airports Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2510. Earliest known date: November 1988 An archetypal Kinloch Anderson blue design. Scottish Tartan Society notes say that Percy Pilcher (an early aviation pioneer 1866 -1899) had connections to the Gunn tartan (his mother was a Robinson). The design is based on that sett using the colours of the British Airports Authority with the purple line added to represent the Scottish thistle. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015Ferguson of Balquhidder #3Blaylock Annandale (Name)Graham of MenteithMurray #3Graham of Montrose

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