Shiel, Purple (Dance)
In pattern WGBBWGW.
This was sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 7 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/7583/
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- March 2008 — Shiel, Purple (Dance) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — Shiel Purple (register-of-tartans, record)
Thread count
LP/4 G4 W60 DP48 B20 G10 W/16

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 #2C4084 | 0.23 |
| DP | #440044 #440044 | B #2C4084 | 0.17 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| LP | #C49CD8 #C49CD8 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.24 |
| W | #F0E0C8 #F0E0C8 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Shiel, Magenta (Dance) — ΔT 0.46
- MacDuff Dress #5 — ΔT 0.67
- MacDuff Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1601. Earliest known date: pre 2003 From Scott Adie pattern. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.68
- Manx, dress — ΔT 0.78
- Manx Dress — ΔT 0.82
- Manitoba Dress (1958) (District) — ΔT 0.85
- MacDuff dress — ΔT 0.85
- Shiel, Purple V2 (Dance) — ΔT 0.91
- Culloden, dress Ancient — ΔT 0.94
- Culloden Dress Old Tartan Tartan Number: 1322. Earliest known date: 1983 Worn by a member of Prince Charles' staff during the battle but it is not known with which family or district it was first connected. It was first illustrated in Old & Rare in 1893 by D W Stewart whose son D C Stewart was a founder member of the Scottish Tartans Society. Now firmly established as a district tartan. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.95
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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