Forrester/Foster Hunting
In pattern KYGWGKYKGW.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1234
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1985 — Forrester/Foster Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1986 — Forrester Htg (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
K/6 Y4 G36 W6 G26 K6 Y8 K6 Ga36 W/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| Ga | #289C18 #289C18 | G #006400 | 0.18 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F4F4F0 | 0.03 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Forrester Hunting Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 2385. Earliest known date: 1997 A clan society that has been in existence since the 1980's. This hunting tartan was fully adopted in 1997. Can be worn with anyone with the name. Note from EBW "From the book "The Forresters" by Colin D.I.G.Forrester, 1988" See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.50
- Forrester / Foster, hunting — ΔT 0.59
- Parkhead — ΔT 0.90
- Keeling Dress (Fashion) — ΔT 1.11
- Kilkenny — ΔT 1.29
- Dalwhinnie Trade Tartan Tartan Number: 1018. Earliest known date: 1982 Reconstructed and woven by Don Rankin from illustration. Sample in STS collection. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.32
- Gayre Dress — ΔT 1.32
- Marie Curie Fields of Hope — ΔT 1.35
- Keeling Dress — ΔT 1.38
- Alberta — ΔT 1.41
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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