Ballater
In pattern BBBRBKRKBR.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=179
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1963 — Ballater (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1963 — Ballater (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 179
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1708
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1708
Thread count
DR/12 Ba24 K4 DR4 K4 Ba24 DR8 DB24 B4 DB/12
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #788CB4 #788CB4 | B #2A418A | 0.25 |
| Ba | #3474FC #3474FC | B #2A418A | 0.22 |
| DB | #00008C #00008C | B #2A418A | 0.13 |
| DR | #8C0000 #8C0000 | R #CC0000 | 0.14 |
| K | #000000 #000000 | K #000000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Hummelt, Katherine (Personal) — ΔT 1.15
- William Murdoch, (Scottish Gas) — ΔT 1.37
- Mary Washington — ΔT 1.41
- American Express Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2354. Earliest known date: April 1997 American Express began operating in Glasgow in 1903 and in 1920 acquired WA Williamson Ltd of Glasgow. This tartan (commissioned by VP Donald Daly) was designed for the 1997 American Association of Travel Agents conference in Glasgow and based on the MacWilliam tartan. For more details see archives. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.47
- Mundigl — ΔT 1.50
- Lopatinsky — ΔT 1.53
- Daughters of the American Revolution — ΔT 1.54
- MacKenzie Blue — ΔT 1.55
- Bryson (1988) — ΔT 1.56
- Greer (Name?) — ΔT 1.57
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14299 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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