Grandfather Mountain Games (District
Bands: RGKBKBY · Stripes: R DG K N K DB LR R DG K N K DB LR
This was sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 7 band tartan.
Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/2198/
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 1993 — Grandfather Mountain Games (District (tartans-authority, record)
- 01/01/1994 — Grandfather Mountain Games (register-of-tartans, record)
- undated — Grandfather Mountain Games American Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2198. Earliest known date: 1993 Designed by Marjorie Warren, Lake Junaluska, NC, in 1993. The following is an explanation of colours used in designing the tartan. Blue: for the saltire-St Andrews flag. White: for the diagonal cross in the saltire flag. Green: for MacRae meadows where the games take place. Grey: for the granite of Grandfather Mtn that overlooks the games and from which the games derives its name. Black: for the rock formation that is found in the granite of Grandfather Mtn. Red: for the "Fire on the Mountain" ceremony on the Thursday calling the clans together for the week-end's games. The copyright was donated to Grandfather Mtn. Highland Games Inc. who officially adopted the tartan 8 July 1993, endorsed by the Board of Scottish Heritage USA, Inc. , sponsors on 10 July 1993. 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: 1493
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2198
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2198
Thread count
Na/4 DB40 K4 N22 K4 DG40 R/6
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #000048 #000048 | B #2A418A | 0.22 |
| DG | #044028 #044028 | G #006100 | 0.13 |
| K | #000000 #000000 | K #000000 | 0.00 |
| N | #606060 #606060 | B #2A418A | 0.15 |
| Na | #B0B0B0 #B0B0B0 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.18 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Sample pattern
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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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