South African Air Force
Bands: BKBYBKBK · Stripes: N K T LY T K N K N K T LY T K N K
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3840
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1995 — South African Air Force (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1995 — South African Air Force (Military) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3840
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5317
Thread count
B/60 K56 Ba4 Y8 Ba4 K56 B60 K/8
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #3C5470 #3C5470 | B #2A418A | 0.08 |
| Ba | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | B #2A418A | 0.23 |
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | B #2A418A | 0.14 |
| DY | #D09800 #D09800 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.12 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LB | #98C8E8 #98C8E8 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.18 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Gracie — ΔT 1.00
- Fibonacci7 — ΔT 1.11
- Kinross (Fashion) — ΔT 1.16
- St. Andrews Old Course Hotel (Corp) — ΔT 1.19
- Connaught Green — ΔT 1.19
- Tartan Army Children's Charity (Corp — ΔT 1.20
- Mountain Rescue Association Honor Guard — ΔT 1.21
- MacIntyre LC — ΔT 1.23
- MacIntyre LC — ΔT 1.23
- Greenways Marketing Intl (Corporate) — ΔT 1.23
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.
ID: /setts/s8/n15k14t1ly2t1k14n15k2~x4/