Cape Breton (yellow stripes)
In pattern YKGKWKY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=557
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1957 — Cape Breton (yellow stripes) (register-of-tartans, record)
- July 1957 — Cape Breton (yellow stripes) (Dist) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
Y/12 K12 LGa60 K16 Nb36 K12 Y/6
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| G | #004800 #004800 | G #006400 | 0.09 |
| K | #000000 #000000 | K #000000 | 0.00 |
| LG | #9C9C00 #9C9C00 | Y #E8C000 | 0.16 |
| LGa | #789484 #789484 | G #006400 | 0.23 |
| LR | #E8CCB8 #E8CCB8 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.11 |
| N | #606060 #606060 | B #2C4084 | 0.15 |
| Na | #888888 #888888 | R #C80000 | 0.24 |
| Nb | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.16 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
Sample pattern
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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/y12k12g60k16w36k12y6-g789484-k000000-wc0c0c0-ye8c000/