Montrose (Graham)
Bands: GKRGKGRKG · Stripes: Y K R DG K Y R K Y Y K R DG K Y R K Y
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2996
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1831 — Montrose (Graham) (register-of-tartans, record)
- 01/01/1831 — Graham Dress (1831) (register-of-tartans, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 4857
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3499
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 350
Thread count
LG/8 K8 R64 DG64 K48 LG32 R64 K8 LG/8
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DG | #003820 #003820 | G #006100 | 0.15 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LG | #789484 #789484 | G #006100 | 0.24 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Montrose — ΔT 0.72
- Montrose — ΔT 0.72
- O'Neill (District) — ΔT 0.75
- Delanghe, Ruben (Personal) — ΔT 0.82
- Baronage — ΔT 0.87
- James of Glencarr (Personal) — ΔT 0.91
- Highland Village — ΔT 0.93
- Earle's Flame — ΔT 0.94
- Manson Family Tartan Tartan Number: 987. Earliest known date: 1983 The official recording of the sett shows the letter G for the dark green stripe. In heraldic terms this means 'Gules' - red. The designer, Hugh Kirkwood Rankine, clearly intended dark green and this is reproduced here. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.95
- Graham Red — ΔT 1.00
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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