Urquhart Broad Red Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1086. Earliest known date: 1810-15 Registered with Lord Lyon on 14th October, 1991. Lord Lyon also registered the 'Urquhart White Line' in the same entry. The proportions of the count given here are taken from the sample in the Cockburn Collection in the Mitchell Library in Glasgow. The sett also appears in the work of W and A Smith (1850) who claim that their sample was collected in the Highlands around 1822, possibly by George Hunter, the Army clothier. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
In pattern KGKBKBKBR.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 9 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1086
Thread count
K/6 G40 K40 DB6 K6 DB6 K6 DB22 R/18
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 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Urquhart - 1810 ((Clan) — ΔT 0.25
- Alexander Hunting (Name) — ΔT 0.68
- Newlands Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2175. Earliest known date: 1986 Designed for Willy Newlands - a journalist who wrote for The Field magazine and who lives (2004) at Lauriston Castle near Aberdeen. Walker is the maiden name of Willie Newland's wife. Note from Willy Newlands in August 2004 says 'based on a rather bloodstained bit if rag on a family cushion'). Mr Newlands also suggests calling it the "Falconers' Tartan" in memory of an ancestor who was a Royal Falconer at the court of King James IV at Linlithgow c.1495. (Sindex notes). Design based on Cameron of Erracht. Letter from Willie newlands 6th April 1988 asked that this now be named Newlands of Lauriston. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.71
- Unnamed 19th Century Plaid — ΔT 0.88
- Gary/Garry (Name) — ΔT 0.92
- Wilson's No.150 — ΔT 0.93
- Brabender — ΔT 0.93
- MacDonald MINI Design Tartan Tartan Number: 4199. Earliest known date: Dupion Silk. Display Purposes Only. Reduced Copy of 419 MacDonald. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.96
- MacDonald #2 — ΔT 0.96
- Forbes #5 — ΔT 0.97
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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