Abercrombie
In pattern BKBKBKGWG.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripes 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)
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 #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | G #006400 | 0.16 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Abercrombie Family Tartan Tartan Number: 241. Earliest known date: 1831 Tartan manufacturers and weavers often increase the width of the blue ground when producing this sett. J.Scarlett compares it with the Graham of Menteith and Wilson's No 158 and concludes that "the central panels... , both blue and green, should be doubled in size. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.00
- AIton - 1979 (Clan) — ΔT 0.82
- U.S. Border Patrol — ΔT 0.96
- Ayrton 1979 No. 2 (Personal) — ΔT 0.98
- Wilson's No.167 — ΔT 1.01
- Smeaton #2 (Name) — ΔT 1.05
- Fraser Gathering Hunting Trade Tartan Tartan Number: 2363. Earliest known date: 1997 Unknown until House of Edgar published their own Old and Rare. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.09
- Abercrombie Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1070. Earliest known date: 1930 Tartan manufacturers and weavers often increase the width of the blue ground when producing this sett. J.Scarlett compares it with the Graham of Menteith and Wilson's No 158 and concludes that "the central panels... , both blue and green, should be doubled in size. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.10
- Guthrie (Name) — ΔT 1.11
- Sardar Chadha (Personal) — ΔT 1.11
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 15726 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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