Oban
Bands: BKBKBKBK · Stripes: B K B K B K DB K B K B K B K DB K
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3211
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1983 — Oban (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 1983 — Oban (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3211
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5529
Thread count
B/24 K40 B4 K4 B4 K40 DBa40 K/24
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #3850C8 #3850C8 | B #2A418A | 0.11 |
| Ba | #1474B4 #1474B4 | B #2A418A | 0.15 |
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | B #2A418A | 0.08 |
| DBa | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Marchmont (Personal) — ΔT 1.06
- Royal Scotsman Train (Corporate) — ΔT 1.16
- Perthshire, New /Tourist Board — ΔT 1.19
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- Pride of Kinross — ΔT 1.36
- Van Loo Tartan Tartan Number: 6717. Earliest known date: pre 2005 Nothing See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.41
- Scottish Nuclear — ΔT 1.42
- MacKay (Blue) #2 — ΔT 1.42
- Marchmont (Personal) — ΔT 1.42
- Pringle, James (Fashion) — ΔT 1.50
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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