33 bands tartan setts

March 18, 2023 2 min 16 s

21 setts across 20 tartans with 33 bands, grouped by colour-sequence pattern. Patterns with fewer than 40 setts are listed in full below; busier ones link to their own page. Each variant shows ΔT — its mean distance (OKLab ΔE) from the pattern's base colours — nearest first, with a stripe bar in the nearest human-palette colour names (hover a stripe to read it).

GRGRBRBRBRBRBRBRWRYBRBYRWRGRGRGRG

ΔT	Tartan	Source
0.04	Huntly	weddslist
0.05	Huntly (District)	tartans-authority
0.08	Marchioness of Huntly's	register-of-tartans

BKBKBKBWBKBRBKGRGRGKWKGRGRGKBKBKB

ΔT	Stripes	Tartan	Source
0.04		Flora, MacDonald Plaid	weddslist
0.07		MacDonald, Flora (Plaid)	register-of-tartans

BRBRBRBRBRKWBWBRBWBWRKGRGRGRGRGKR

ΔT	Stripes	Tartan	Source
0.04		MacDonald, dress	weddslist
0.07		MacDonald Dress #2	register-of-tartans

WBWGYGWBWRRWRRWRBWYWBWYWBRWRWRBRW

ΔT	Stripes	Tartan	Source
0.07		Culloden House Bed Hangings	register-of-tartans
0.08		Culloden, House Bed Hangings	weddslist

BKBKBKBKBKBKBKBKBKBKGKBKBKBKBKBKB

ΔT	Stripes	Tartan	Source
0.14		MacDonald, Flora (Artefact)	tartans-authority

BKBKBKGKWKGKBKRKBKRKBKGKWKGKBKBKB

ΔT	Stripes	Tartan	Source
0.07		MacKenzie	logan-1831

BKYKWKGRGBRBKWKYKBKYKWKGRGRGKWKYK

ΔT	Stripes	Tartan	Source
0.11		Hawick	register-of-tartans

BKYKYKYRYKYKYRBRKBKYKYKYRYKYKYKBK

ΔT	Stripes	Tartan	Source
0.16		Hawick (District)	tartans-authority

BRYGYYGYRBRYGYYGYRBRYGYYGYYGYYGYR

ΔT	Stripes	Tartan	Source
0.16		Equorian Olympic Commemorative Tartan Tartan Number: 1996. Earliest known date: 1986 Edinburgh Woollen Mills design to commemorate Britains participation in the 1988 Olympic Games in Korea and to raise money for the British Equestrian Olympic Appeal Fund. The full sett is not shown here for technical reasons. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015	house-of-tartan

BWGWGWBWGWGWGWGWGWGWRGWGWGWGWGWGW

ΔT	Stripes	Tartan	Source
0.11		Invermark	tartans-authority

GRGBWBYBWBYBWBGRGWRWBWBYBWBYBWBGR

ΔT	Stripes	Tartan	Source
0.10		Hawick Corporate District Tartan Tartan Number: 2220. Earliest known date: 1996 Designed by Andrew Elliot of Andrew Elliot Ltd, Forest Mill, Galashiels, Scotland. Appears to be a variation on Cockburn. Launched at a civic reception in Hawick as the offocial district tartan in February (14th) 1996. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015	house-of-tartan

GWGWGWGWGWGWKGWGKWKGWGKWKGWGWGWGW

ΔT	Stripes	Tartan	Source
0.10		Miss Peffer's, Plaid	weddslist

KGKYKWKGGGGGGKWKYKGKYKWKGGGGGKWKY

ΔT	Stripes	Tartan	Source
0.12		Hawick	weddslist

RBRBRBRBWBRBWBRBWBRBYBRBWBRBRBRBR

ΔT	Stripes	Tartan	Source
0.19		Kumikyoku - Wind of Thistle	register-of-tartans

RWRWRWRWRWRWKRWRKWKRWRKWKRWRWRWRW

ΔT	Stripes	Tartan	Source
0.16		Miss Peffer's Plaid Artifact Tartan Tartan Number: 1313. Earliest known date: pre 2003 First grey is N270. Shortened for display. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015	house-of-tartan

WGBGBKYBRBKBWBGBWBGBWBKBRBYKBGBGW

ΔT	Stripes	Tartan	Source
0.10		Kumikyoku - Tone of Forest	register-of-tartans