Melville Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1050. Earliest known date: 1847 There is a sample in the Moy Hall collection.(1848). This sett, also known as Oliphant and Melville, appears in one of Wilson's notebooks in 1847. It is mentioned in a letter dated June 1824 but without any means of identification. It is also to be found in the Scott Adie (London) collection and in the MacPherson Museum in Newtonmore. Wilson records the second pivot (between the white lines) as blue. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
In pattern BKBKGWKWGKB.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1050
Thread count
DB/16 K4 DB24 K26 G26 LN4 K8 LN4 G26 K26 DB/8
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Abercrombie — ΔT 0.60
- Poulter SG 100 (Fashion) — ΔT 0.78
- Forbes — ΔT 0.85
- Stewart of Achnacone Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 160. Earliest known date: c.1815 'As made for Achnacone by P.J. Haggart, Aberfeldy...' See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.87
- Granger/Grainger (Personal) — ΔT 0.90
- Lochinvar Marine Harvest — ΔT 0.92
- Hamilton of Clayton (Personal) — ΔT 0.97
- Westgate (Corporate) — ΔT 0.97
- Cheape of Torosay #2 (Personal) — ΔT 0.98
- Newlands of Lauriston — ΔT 0.99
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14299 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/db8k2db12k13g13w2k4w2g13k13db4~x2/