Bute Heather
In pattern BKBGBKBKBWB.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=455
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/2004 — Bute Heather (register-of-tartans, record)
- 2004 — Bute Heather (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
DB/11 K4 P17 G2 P17 K8 DN8 K13 DN38 W2 DB/13

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #202060 #202060 | B #2C4084 | 0.11 |
| DN | #14283C #14283C | B #2C4084 | 0.14 |
| G | #285800 #285800 | G #006400 | 0.04 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| P | #780078 #780078 | B #2C4084 | 0.16 |
| W | #F8F8F8 #F8F8F8 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Spirit of Alva (Fashion) — ΔT 0.99
- Bute Heather, Autumn — ΔT 1.21
- Dalgliesh, Ewen (Personal) — ΔT 1.50
- Pride of Scotland General Tartan Tartan Number: 2469. Earliest known date: 1997 The Pride of Scotland tartan was designed by Kenneth Dalgleish of D C Dalgleish, Selkirk and promoted by McCalls of Aberdeen who own copyright and patent. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.58
- Kelvin Family (Personal) — ΔT 1.58
- D'Souza (Personal) — ΔT 1.59
- Cowal (Corporate) — ΔT 1.60
- Scotland Forever — ΔT 1.61
- Brown Ellis (Personal) — ΔT 1.65
- Glenisla (Fashion) — ΔT 1.68
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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