Burns Heritage Check
In pattern GGGWGWKWK.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=451
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1991 — Burns Heritage Check (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1991 — Burns Heritage Check (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
K/12 W12 K12 W12 Ga14 W8 T6 Ga4 T/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR | #441800 #441800 | B #2C4084 | 0.22 |
| DRa | #A00000 #A00000 | R #C80000 | 0.09 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| Ga | #408060 #408060 | G #006400 | 0.13 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #B03000 #B03000 | R #C80000 | 0.05 |
| T | #604000 #604000 | G #006400 | 0.14 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F4F4F0 | 0.03 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Burns Heritage Check — ΔT 0.94
- Burns Check — ΔT 1.28
- Burns Check (District) — ΔT 1.29
- Burns Check Trade Tartan Tartan Number: 1736. Earliest known date: 1959 Number of black stripes is not fixed. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.33
- Robert, Burns check — ΔT 1.51
- Ferguson Dress variation — ΔT 1.71
- Scott, Sir Walter #3 — ΔT 1.72
- Glen Flesk — ΔT 1.72
- Scott B/W (Sir Walter..) Tartan Tartan Number: 1241. Earliest known date: pre 2003 Also known as Dress Scott but seldom seen today. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.75
- Glen Flesk — ΔT 1.76
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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