Mina Perhonen Japanese Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 5797. Earliest known date: pre 2003 Designed by Fiona Hall of Lochcarron as a corporate tartan for the Mina Company of Tokyo whose logo is a butterfly. The blues are from the company's colours and represent the sky, the yellow represents the butterfly and the white is for the clouds.'Perhonen' is Finnish for butterfly and chosen because the Japanese design world has a great affinity with some Scandinavian countries. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
Bands: WBYBBBY · Stripes: W DB LY DB T DB LY W DB LY DB T DB LY
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 7 band tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=5797
Thread count
LN/8 DBa48 Y4 DB48 B10 DBa8 Y/8
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | B #2A418A | 0.23 |
| Ba | #006080 #006080 | B #2A418A | 0.10 |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| DBa | #202060 #202060 | B #2A418A | 0.11 |
| DBb | #00003C #00003C | K #000000 | 0.20 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Icelandair — ΔT 0.85
- Banff, and Buchan — ΔT 0.87
- Aberdeen Academy of Performing Arts — ΔT 0.96
- The Open Championship — ΔT 1.04
- Sabema — ΔT 1.09
- Aberdeen Academy of Performing Art — ΔT 1.13
- MacLaren — ΔT 1.16
- Blue Peter — ΔT 1.18
- US Forces (Thurso) Regimental Tartan Tartan Number: 549. Earliest known date: 1986 Originally listed as MacNeil, this sett was identified by Ken Dalgliesh, weaver in Selkirk, in 1999. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.20
- Isle of Harris (District) — ΔT 1.22
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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