University of Edinburgh
In pattern KRKBWKW.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5554
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 08/09/2007 — University of Edinburgh (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 2008 — University of Edinburgh (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — University of Edinburgh Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 7516. Earliest known date: 2008 Woven scarf sample from Lochcarron but this had been previously woven by another company. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 5554
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7516
Thread count
K/8 DR26 K22 N110 LN4 K5 LN/4

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR | #780028 #780028 | R #CC0000 | 0.19 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| N | #484C68 #484C68 | B #2A418A | 0.08 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Edinburgh, The University of — ΔT 0.78
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Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14299 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/k8r26k22n110w4k5w4/