Newman
Bands: BKBRKWGRGRG · Stripes: DB K DB R K W G R G R G DB K DB R K W G R G R G
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3129
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1990 — Newman (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1990 — Newman (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — Newman Clan/Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2629. Earliest known date: 1990 This is 'Newlands' (#2175) with a white line between the black and green. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3129
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2629
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2629
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
DB/20 K20 DB20 DR4 K40 W2 G20 DR4 G8 DR4 G/8

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | B #2A418A | 0.14 |
| DR | #880000 #880000 | R #CC0000 | 0.15 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Colquhoun — ΔT 0.75
- Cailleach — ΔT 0.81
- Paterson (Dalgleish Version) — ΔT 0.88
- Smith (Sir William) — ΔT 0.92
- Campbell Red — ΔT 0.92
- Clerke of Ulva Family Tartan Tartan Number: 168. Earliest known date: Unknown Said to have been copied from an old kilt. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.93
- Eildon (1996) — ΔT 0.94
- Loch Carron — ΔT 0.98
- Thomas of Craigie (Personal) — ΔT 0.98
- Cameron of Erracht — ΔT 1.01
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.
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