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

In pattern KGKBRBR.

This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 7 stripes tartan.

Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2050

Thread count

K/14 G44 K44 DB12 R4 DB30 R/4 Sett

Palette

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

ColourShadeBaseΔE (OKLab)
DB#202060 #202060B #2C40840.11
G#006818 #006818G #0064000.02
K#101010 #101010K #0000000.17
R#C80000 #C80000R #C800000.00

Sample pattern

Tartan detail

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

  1. National Galleries of Scotland — ΔT 0.51
  2. Reid and Taylor — ΔT 0.53
  3. Black Watch (Coarse Kilt) — ΔT 0.53
  4. Renfrew — ΔT 0.63
  5. 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 0.63
  6. Mowat (Clans Originaux) — ΔT 0.64
  7. 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 0.65
  8. Gunn — ΔT 0.65
  9. Graham of Montrose — ΔT 0.66
  10. Unnamed 19th Century Plaid — ΔT 0.70

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.

National Galleries of ScotlandReid and TaylorBlack Watch (Coarse Kilt)RenfrewBlair 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, 2015Mowat (Clans Originaux)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, 2015GunnGraham of MontroseUnnamed 19th Century Plaid

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