Black Hills
In pattern BWGRKBKYK.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=274
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/2003 — Black Hills (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 2003 — Black Hills (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — Black Hills (South Dakota) American Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 5815. Earliest known date: pre 2003 Designed by the Reverend John Pahls and woven by Kirkbright & Fraser of Vancouver. Phil Smith (June 2004) advises that it was commissioned by the Rev.Thomas and Elizabeth Campbell for the Black Hills Highland Games held in Sturgis, South Dakota. Another source states it is the unnofficial state tartan. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 274
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5815
Thread count
DB/6 W4 Ga28 R28 K4 DB14 K18 Y4 K/4
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| G | #285800 #285800 | G #006100 | 0.03 |
| Ga | #408060 #408060 | G #006100 | 0.14 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| W | #FFFFFF #FFFFFF | W #F7F7F7 | 0.02 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Manderson #2 — ΔT 0.82
- Dykes, of Perthshire — ΔT 0.84
- Unidentified No 14 — ΔT 0.90
- Comyn/Cumming — ΔT 0.90
- Leitrim Irish County Tartan Tartan Number: 2271. Earliest known date: 1996 One of a series of Irish District tartans designed by Polly Wittering of the House of Edgar, with colours reminiscent of the Country with soft warm colours dominating. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.96
- Wilson's, No 83 — ΔT 0.96
- Caledonian Labrador Retrievers — ΔT 0.99
- Caledonian Labrador Retrievers — ΔT 1.00
- Alberta Caledonia (Corporate) — ΔT 1.04
- Stirling, and Bannockburn — ΔT 1.05
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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