O'Sullivan
Bands: BKBWBGBGRGY · Stripes: B K B W DB G DB G R G LY B K B W DB G DB G R G LY
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3272
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/06/2000 — O'Sullivan (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 2002 — O'Sullivan (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3272
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3311
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2704
Thread count
B/24 K16 B40 W8 DBa40 Ga16 DBa24 Ga36 R8 Ga16 Y/8
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #1474B4 #1474B4 | B #2A418A | 0.15 |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| DBa | #1C0070 #1C0070 | B #2A418A | 0.14 |
| DR | #880000 #880000 | R #CC0000 | 0.15 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| Ga | #408060 #408060 | G #006100 | 0.14 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| N | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Leel (Personal) — ΔT 1.27
- Dyer — ΔT 1.37
- Smithers (Name) — ΔT 1.40
- Unidentified, Gordon variant — ΔT 1.40
- Unidentified Gordon variant — ΔT 1.45
- DunBroch — ΔT 1.48
- Scotia Trade Tartan Tartan Number: 89. Earliest known date: 1968 Originally designed by James Allan of East Kilbride and woven by him in 1850. The sett was reconstructed by David Easton, Galashiels, as a National tartan for Scotland. It did not catch on and the tartan is rarely seen today. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.49
- Manderson (Personal) — ΔT 1.50
- Coats (New Zealand) — ΔT 1.51
- Chattahoochee River — ΔT 1.53
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 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.
ID: /setts/s11/b6k4b10w2db10g4db6g9r2g4ly2~x4/