Cowan of Inveresk (Personal)
In pattern RGWKBKBY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=781
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1982 — Cowan of Inveresk (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1982 — Cowan of Inveresk (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 781
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1549
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1549
Thread count
R/8 G32 W4 K30 DBa30 K4 DBa4 Y/4

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #000088 #000088 | B #2A418A | 0.14 |
| DBa | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| G | #004C00 #004C00 | G #006100 | 0.07 |
| K | #000000 #000000 | K #000000 | 0.00 |
| LG | #9C9C00 #9C9C00 | Y #F2BF00 | 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.
- Cowan, of Inveresk — ΔT 0.69
- MacCraig — ΔT 0.70
- Cumming LO — ΔT 0.96
- Blairmore — ΔT 0.97
- Harvey of Cornwall (Personal) — ΔT 0.97
- Scottish Cultural Society (Corporate — ΔT 0.99
- Veere (District) — ΔT 1.01
- MacDonald of Borrodale (Clan) — ΔT 1.03
- Colquhoun — ΔT 1.06
- Morris of Balgonie — ΔT 1.06
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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