Edinburgh District Tartan Tartan Number: 1163. Earliest known date: 1970 Several attempts have been made to develop a special tartan for the residents of Edinburgh. None had success until the design by Councillor Hugh Macpherson in 1970 on the occassion of the Commonwealth Games. The colours have symbolic references to the City of Edinburgh. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
In pattern KRGRRRRBW.
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=1163
Thread count
K/4 DR6 G20 R10 DR6 R6 DR6 DB50 LN/6
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 |
| DR | #880000 #880000 | R #C80000 | 0.14 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Edinburgh District — ΔT 0.48
- Loch Lomond & the Trossachs (Fashion — ΔT 0.69
- Edinburgh District (District) — ΔT 0.69
- Edinburgh — ΔT 0.85
- Scottish Association for Neurological Sciences — ΔT 0.90
- Edinburgh — ΔT 0.93
- Glenn — ΔT 0.96
- Edinburgh District — ΔT 0.97
- Traill Clan/Family Weavers Tartan Tartan Number: 3093. Earliest known date: 2002 The Traill tartan is for anyone tracing their ancestry to the Scottish 'Traills' - Traill of Blebo and descendants in Orkney and elsewhere. Blue is poor. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.98
- Crieff Primary School — ΔT 1.01
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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