Paton (Personal)
In pattern RGKGYGY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3302
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1930 — Paton (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1930s — Paton (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
DR/6 G40 K40 G40 DY4 G4 DY/4

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR | #880000 #880000 | R #C80000 | 0.14 |
| DY | #D09800 #D09800 | Y #E8C000 | 0.11 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Paton Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2127. Earliest known date: 1930 Discovered in 1993 at P and J Haggart, weavers in Aberfeldy. It was possibly designed by the late Mr John Robertson around the 1930's, but the sample appears to have been woven in 1952. The Paton family associated with the tartan come from Aberdeenshire. Apart from the red stripe this sett resembles the Gordon of Abergeldy previously known as Ancient Gordon. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.84
- MacKintosh Hunting Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 544. Earliest known date: 1951 This sett appears in D.C. Stewarts book, The Setts of the Scottish Tartans, with slightly different proportions. The Lyon Court Book No. 1 records the sett in relation to the narrowest stripe. ie Y 1, Vt (Vert meaning green) 10 1/2, Bu 5, etc. The rendering illustrated here multiplies the Lyon count by two. Commercially manufactured cloth may vary from these proportions. D.C. Stewart calls the sett "a modern arrangement". See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.88
- Scottish Scouts (1957) (Corporate) — ΔT 0.97
- Daks, Muted Loden — ΔT 1.01
- Angle, Green (Fashion) — ΔT 1.04
- Lauder (Family) — ΔT 1.10
- MacArthur (Variant) — ΔT 1.12
- MacKintosh, hunting — ΔT 1.14
- MacKintosh Hunting — ΔT 1.17
- Arkansas — ΔT 1.17
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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