Abercrombie
Bands: BKBKBKGWG · Stripes: DB K DB K DB K G W G DB K DB K DB K G W G
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1805 — Abercrombie (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1831 — Abercrombie - 1831 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 10
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 241
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 241
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
DB/28 K8 DB8 K8 DB8 K28 G28 LN4 G/56
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 |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | G #006100 | 0.15 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- AIton - 1979 (Clan) — ΔT 0.82
- U.S. Border Patrol — ΔT 0.97
- Ayrton 1979 No. 2 (Personal) — ΔT 0.99
- Wilson's No.167 — ΔT 1.01
- Smeaton #2 (Name) — ΔT 1.05
- Sardar Chadha (Personal) — ΔT 1.11
- Maitland Chief — ΔT 1.12
- Davidson — ΔT 1.12
- Davidson - 1842 (Clan) — ΔT 1.12
- Guthrie (Name) — ΔT 1.12
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/s9/g14w1g7k7db2k2db2k2db7~x4/