In pattern BKGBKBKG.

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

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2106

Attestations

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

• 01/08/2005 — Letham (S.Australia) (register-of-tartans, record)
• 2005 August — Letham (S.Australia) (Name) (tartans-authority, record)

Thread count

B/8 K8 G26 B14 K8 B20 K40 G/80

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. MacLean of Duart Hunting — ΔT 1.06
2. Letham Personal Tartan Tartan Number: 6718. Earliest known date: pre 2005 Jimmy said, in his recording application, "To allow my family to wear a single tartan" See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.17
3. Ayrton 1979 No. 2 (Personal) — ΔT 1.23
4. Hartmann (Personal) — ΔT 1.24
5. Davidson, Half.. — ΔT 1.30
6. Abercrombie — ΔT 1.32
7. Abercrombie Family Tartan Tartan Number: 241. Earliest known date: 1831 Tartan manufacturers and weavers often increase the width of the blue ground when producing this sett. J.Scarlett compares it with the Graham of Menteith and Wilson's No 158 and concludes that "the central panels... , both blue and green, should be doubled in size. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.32
8. MacIntyre Hunting Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 743. Earliest known date: 1800 There is a doublet in Kingussie Museum dated 1800 in this tartan. It also appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum (1842). See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.33
9. Harley (Leslie), Robert — ΔT 1.33
10. Falconer of Labhdal Personal Tartan Tartan Number: 6787. Earliest known date: 2005 August This is what James K.R. Falconer calls an update of the family tartan submitted in September 2005 and is the conventional Falconer tartan as seen at #387 with an extra blue line in the centre of the green and the colours rendered in lighter shades. Woven by Drove Weaving of Langholm (Lochcarron) and organised through Pride of Lammermuir, Lady Hilary Menzies. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.34

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.

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