Rafferty (Estimated threadcount)
Bands: RBYBWBWBY · Stripes: R B LO B W B W B LO R B LO B W B W B LO
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3439
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/2005 — Rafferty (Estimated threadcount) (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 2005 — Rafferty (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3439
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6749
Thread count
DR/60 B8 LT4 B40 W4 B8 W4 B8 LT/4

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 |
| DR | #880000 #880000 | R #CC0000 | 0.15 |
| LT | #A08858 #A08858 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.21 |
| W | #F8F8F8 #F8F8F8 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Sea Dog Bamse, Pride of Norway — ΔT 0.99
- Philadelphia Police and Fire P&D — ΔT 1.26
- Hermitage Academy (Corporate) — ΔT 1.30
- Mercer Personal Tartan Tartan Number: 3019. Earliest known date: 2004 Sent to House of Tartan by the owner. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.31
- Scotland 2000 Commemorative Tartan Tartan Number: 2514. Earliest known date: 1999 Strathmore Woollen Mills Millenium tartan designed by Arthur Mackie of Strathmore Woollen Co., Forfar See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.32
- Singh — ΔT 1.33
- Dunbarton, Weft — ΔT 1.34
- MDF (Personal) — ΔT 1.34
- Mercer, James (Personal) — ΔT 1.35
- Nunavut (District) — ΔT 1.38
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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