Argyll Campbell

In pattern BKBKGWGKBK.

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripes tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=110

Thread count

B/4 K4 B36 K40 G36 LN8 G36 K40 B34 K/6

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. Granger/Grainger (Personal) — ΔT 0.50
2. Newlands Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2175. Earliest known date: 1986 Designed for Willy Newlands - a journalist who wrote for The Field magazine and who lives (2004) at Lauriston Castle near Aberdeen. Walker is the maiden name of Willie Newland's wife. Note from Willy Newlands in August 2004 says 'based on a rather bloodstained bit if rag on a family cushion'). Mr Newlands also suggests calling it the "Falconers' Tartan" in memory of an ancestor who was a Royal Falconer at the court of King James IV at Linlithgow c.1495. (Sindex notes). Design based on Cameron of Erracht. Letter from Willie newlands 6th April 1988 asked that this now be named Newlands of Lauriston. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.75
3. Forbes #3 — ΔT 0.79
4. Stephenson Hunting — ΔT 0.83
5. Pinney's of Scotland — ΔT 0.88
6. Fletcher Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 257. Earliest known date: 1906 Sometimes known as Fletcher of Saltoun, but commonly worn by all the Scottish Fletchers regardless family origins. According to legend, "Is e Clann-an-leisdeir a thog a cued smuid thug goil air uisge 'an Urcha." (It was the Fletcher clan that first raised smoke and boiled their water in Glen Orchy.) See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.88
7. Scottish Airports Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2510. Earliest known date: November 1988 An archetypal Kinloch Anderson blue design. Scottish Tartan Society notes say that Percy Pilcher (an early aviation pioneer 1866 -1899) had connections to the Gunn tartan (his mother was a Robinson). The design is based on that sett using the colours of the British Airports Authority with the purple line added to represent the Scottish thistle. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.90
8. Alexander Hunting (Name) — ΔT 0.91
9. Murray of Atholl #3 — ΔT 0.92
10. Blair Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 416. Earliest known date: pre 1963 Described by MacKinlay as a "Modern family sett". See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.92

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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