Rosevear
Bands: RGWBWBWYR · Stripes: R G W DB W DB W LY R R G W DB W DB W LY R
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3550
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1990 — Rosevear (register-of-tartans, record)
- January 1990 — Rosevear (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — Rosevear Family/Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 2541. Earliest known date: 1990 A familyl tartan designed by House of Edgar Woollens Ltd. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3550
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2541
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2541
Thread count
DR/100 Y8 LN32 DB4 LN8 DB4 LN30 G54 R/8

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 #2A418A | 0.06 |
| DR | #901C38 #901C38 | R #CC0000 | 0.13 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Rosevear — ΔT 0.27
- Unnamed C20th - National Archives — ΔT 0.97
- Hebridean Arisaid, Red/White (Dance) — ΔT 0.99
- Edinburgh Napier University (Corp.) — ΔT 1.00
- Westwood (Fashion?) — ΔT 1.05
- MacLean of Duart #2 — ΔT 1.10
- Norwegian Migration Period — ΔT 1.10
- Cape Breton Polish Society — ΔT 1.15
- Elystan Glodrydd (Name) — ΔT 1.15
- Round Table Sweden — ΔT 1.19
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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