Cowe (Personal)
In pattern BKWBKBK.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=782
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/09/2003 — Cowe (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 2004 — Cowe (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
Ba/6 K50 W6 B28 K64 Ba6 K/16

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #1474B4 #1474B4 | B #2C4084 | 0.15 |
| Ba | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | B #2C4084 | 0.23 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F4F4F0 | 0.03 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Anzac (Fashion) — ΔT 0.89
- St. Eloi — ΔT 0.95
- London Fog Black 2 (fashion) — ΔT 1.13
- Benson (New England) — ΔT 1.15
- Black (symmetrical) — ΔT 1.20
- Black Clan/Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2761. Earliest known date: pre 1945 In 1990, taken to a TECA stand at one of the US Highland Games by a Timothy Wood, who explained that his faher had 'found' it in a shop in northern England during World War II. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.22
- Black 1990 (Name) — ΔT 1.29
- Jensen, Sven (Personal) — ΔT 1.37
- New Zealand District Tartan Tartan Number: 3250. Earliest known date: 2000 Designed as a District sett by Timely Marketing Promotions, Christchurch, New Zealand See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.47
- C-Tec N.I. Ltd — ΔT 1.54
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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