Bands: BRBRBKRG · Stripes: DB R DB R DB K R DG DB R DB R DB K R DG

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 band tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=391

Attestations

This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.

• 01/01/1905 — Brown (register-of-tartans, record)
• pre 1905 — Brown (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

• Scottish Register of Tartans: 391
• Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 432
• Scottish Tartans World Register: 432

Thread count

DB/24 R4 DB8 R4 DB8 K72 R32 G/8

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

Sample pattern

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. Brown — ΔT 0.27
2. Grady, Highlands — ΔT 0.73
3. Booth (Fashion) — ΔT 1.03
4. Urbino (Fashion) — ΔT 1.24
5. Brown Family Tartan Tartan Number: 432. Earliest known date: 1850 The Scott Adie collection, a book of manufacturers samples, was recently sold at auction. The book is dated 1850 and the samples are thought to represent the tartans available for purchase between 1840-50. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.26
6. Southdown Tartan Tartan Number: 1194. Earliest known date: pre 2003 Designed for the Glasgow conference in 2002 See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.29
7. Sonsub Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 6984. Earliest known date: 2006 Corporate colours for Sonsub Ltd, Bridge of Don, Aberdeen. Sonsub is a well known provider of remote subsea systems technology, and provides services to the North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Africa, Caspian and Middle East. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.32
8. Carlow — ΔT 1.32
9. Aitken — ΔT 1.33
10. Phantom (Corporate) — ΔT 1.39

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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