Colgan (Personal)
Bands: RBGKBGBGW · Stripes: R DB G K DB G DB G LB R DB G K DB G DB G LB
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=709
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/06/1997 — Colgan (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 2002 — Colgan (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 709
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2403
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2403
Thread count
DR/14 DB4 G10 K48 DB4 G20 DB56 G20 N/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #00008C #00008C | B #2A418A | 0.13 |
| DR | #8C0000 #8C0000 | R #CC0000 | 0.14 |
| G | #007800 #007800 | G #006100 | 0.07 |
| K | #000000 #000000 | K #000000 | 0.00 |
| N | #C8C8C8 #C8C8C8 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.14 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Nery — ΔT 0.71
- MacMillan Hunting — ΔT 0.82
- West of Wells — ΔT 0.82
- Biskup (Personal) — ΔT 0.88
- Clerke of Ulva — ΔT 0.91
- Cusack — ΔT 0.91
- Barnes — ΔT 0.92
- Clark of Ulva (Clan) — ΔT 0.94
- Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh — ΔT 0.97
- Logan and MacLennan — ΔT 0.99
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.
ID: /setts/s9/r7db2g5k24db2g10db28g10lb3~x2/