Keeling
Bands: KRKRYGY · Stripes: K O K R LY G LY K O K R LY G LY
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10061
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 10/06/2009 — Keeling (register-of-tartans, record)
- 10th June 2009 — Keeling (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 10061
Thread count
K/26 N12 K10 R86 Y12 G14 Y/34

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| G | #008000 #008000 | G #006100 | 0.10 |
| K | #000000 #000000 | K #000000 | 0.00 |
| N | #848484 #848484 | R #CC0000 | 0.23 |
| R | #CD0000 #CD0000 | R #CC0000 | 0.00 |
| Y | #FFFF00 #FFFF00 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.16 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Rose White Dress — ΔT 1.28
- Rose, White dress — ΔT 1.31
- Thirkill (Dalgliesh) — ΔT 1.35
- Melieres, Carolyn (Personal) — ΔT 1.40
- MacLachlan #4 — ΔT 1.42
- Blackstock, dress — ΔT 1.43
- Carlow County Crest (Fashion) — ΔT 1.44
- MacLachlan Old Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1710. Earliest known date: 1790 It is the oldest MacLachlan tartan actually bearing the name. The sett has been refered to as Old MacLachlan, MacLachlan and Hunting MacLachlan. Although the sett did not appear in books until D.W. Stewart's Old & Rare Scottish Tartans of 1893, there are samples of it in the collections of Campbell of Craignish in 1790 and in the Highland Society of London (circa 1816). See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.45
- MacLachlan Dress — ΔT 1.50
- Kinloch Anderson Check (Fashion) — ΔT 1.51
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.
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