Carson Red (Personal)
Bands: BRBRBKRG · Stripes: N R N R N K R G N R N R N K R G
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=580
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1996 — Carson Red (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1996 — Carson Red (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 580
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7056
Thread count
B/38 R4 B6 R4 B6 K86 R44 G/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #446C84 #446C84 | B #2A418A | 0.14 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- 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 0.74
- Greater St Louis Area Firefighters Highland Guard — ΔT 0.86
- 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 0.94
- Queen of Scots — ΔT 0.98
- Rennie (Personal) — ΔT 1.02
- Ruthven — ΔT 1.10
- Ruthven — ΔT 1.10
- Hunter of Bute (Clan ?) — ΔT 1.11
- Harbor Club (Corporate) — ΔT 1.16
- Private SA Club — ΔT 1.17
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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