Nor'Westers
Bands: KBRWGYGGK · Stripes: K B R W DY LY DY G K K B R W DY LY DY G K
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3146
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1963 — Nor'Westers (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1963 — Nor'Westers (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3146
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1067
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1067
Thread count
K/2 B12 R4 W24 T4 Y8 T4 Ga60 K/2
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #1474B4 #1474B4 | B #2A418A | 0.15 |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| Ga | #408060 #408060 | G #006100 | 0.14 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| T | #604000 #604000 | G #006100 | 0.14 |
| W | #F8F8F8 #F8F8F8 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.00 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- St Brigid's Quirindi — ΔT 0.66
- Webster (Name) — ΔT 1.35
- Unidentified (Tony Murray Collection — ΔT 1.38
- Cadenhead (2015) — ΔT 1.45
- McAleavy (2014) — ΔT 1.45
- Nickel Lodge Centennial (Corporate) — ΔT 1.47
- Nor Westers Tartan Tartan Number: 1069. Earliest known date: 1963 Named after the Nor Westers Mountain Range in Ontario. Designed by Miss Evelyn B Halliday in February 1963 to commemorate the naming of the range in that year See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.47
- Caskie — ΔT 1.52
- Currie — ΔT 1.60
- Stirling, University — ΔT 1.63
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.
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