National Galleries of Scotland
In pattern KGKBRBR.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3097
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/11/1991 — National Galleries of Scotland (register-of-tartans, record)
- November 1991 — National Galleries of Scotland (Corp (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
K/14 G44 K44 DB12 R4 DB30 R/4
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 #2C4084 | 0.14 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Mowat (Clans Originaux) — ΔT 0.43
- Gunn — ΔT 0.47
- 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 0.51
- Reid and Taylor — ΔT 0.53
- Renfrew — ΔT 0.59
- Blair Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 416. Earliest known date: pre 1963 Described by MacKinlay as a "Modern family sett". See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.61
- Black Watch (Coarse Kilt) — ΔT 0.64
- 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 — ΔT 0.66
- Wilson's No.100 — ΔT 0.70
- Ferguson of Balquhidder #2 — ΔT 0.75
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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