Manson Family Tartan Tartan Number: 987. Earliest known date: 1983 The official recording of the sett shows the letter G for the dark green stripe. In heraldic terms this means 'Gules' - red. The designer, Hugh Kirkwood Rankine, clearly intended dark green and this is reproduced here. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
In pattern GRGKGRKW.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=987
Thread count
G/2 R18 G6 K6 G6 R2 K18 LN/2
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Dickie — ΔT 0.56
- Earle's Flame — ΔT 0.82
- Private SA Club — ΔT 0.82
- Wcwm 1062 — ΔT 0.84
- Montrose — ΔT 0.85
- Montrose — ΔT 0.85
- O'Neill (District) — ΔT 0.85
- MacMillan - 2002 (Black - Unofficial — ΔT 0.86
- Blackstock Red (Dress) — ΔT 0.87
- Daks — ΔT 0.89
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14299 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/s8/g1r9g3k3g3r1k9w1~x2/