Royal Yacht Britannia
In pattern KYGWBYBR.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3616
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/12/1998 — Royal Yacht Britannia (register-of-tartans, record)
- December 1998 — Royal Yacht Britannia (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3616
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2529
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2529
Thread count
K/86 Y6 G2 W2 DB2 Y6 DB50 R/4

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #202060 #202060 | B #2A418A | 0.11 |
| G | #005448 #005448 | G #006100 | 0.10 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Montgomerie, Colin — ΔT 0.97
- Victorian Highland Pipe Band Assoc — ΔT 0.97
- Italian American — ΔT 1.07
- Melrose Newbigging Grey — ΔT 1.11
- Voluntary Service Aberdeen — ΔT 1.15
- Wells (2014) — ΔT 1.19
- Scottish Heritage Society (Corporate — ΔT 1.19
- Earthrise — ΔT 1.20
- Victorian Highland Pipe Band Association (Australia) — ΔT 1.23
- Brighton Mac Dermott (Fashion) — ΔT 1.25
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.
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