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
In pattern WBYBBBY.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 7 stripes 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 #2C4084 | 0.23 |
| Ba | #006080 #006080 | B #2C4084 | 0.10 |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| DBa | #202060 #202060 | B #2C4084 | 0.11 |
| DBb | #00003C #00003C | K #000000 | 0.20 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Banff and Buchan District Tartan Tartan Number: 2150. Earliest known date: 1992 This tartan has been designed for the District of Banff and Buchan. It is based on the sett of the Ogilvy Tartan which originates from this district. The colours are taken from the surrounding landscape - the blues of the mountains and the sea, also of the sky, with touches of white. The yellow is reminiscent of the cornfields. (J.Roberts) The tartan is produced by Macnaughtons of Pitlochry. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.83
- Icelandair — ΔT 0.85
- Banff, and Buchan — ΔT 0.86
- Aberdeen Academy of Performing Arts — ΔT 0.96
- The Open Championship — ΔT 1.02
- Sabema — ΔT 1.09
- Aberdeen Academy of Performing Art — ΔT 1.13
- MacLaren — ΔT 1.16
- Blue Peter — ΔT 1.17
- 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 1.19
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.
ID: /setts/s7/w8b48y4ba48bb10b8y8-b202060-ba2c2c80-bb5c8ca8-we0e0e0-ye8c000/