Scottish Tartans Authority
In pattern BKBKKRGKBKK.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5584
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1819 — Scottish Tartans Authority (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1819 — Wilsons' No.060 (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
- 1819 — Scottish Tartans Authority (Corp.) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
B/8 K6 B4 DBa12 K30 R4 G32 DBa8 B4 DBa4 K/32
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | B #2C4084 | 0.23 |
| DB | #202060 #202060 | B #2C4084 | 0.11 |
| DBa | #00002C #00002C | K #000000 | 0.16 |
| G | #285800 #285800 | G #006400 | 0.04 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Wilson's No.060 — ΔT 0.33
- Scottish Tartans Authority Tartan Tartan Number: 243. Earliest known date: 1819 This design comes from the pattern books of the old firm of weavers, Wilson's of Bannockburn. It has been adopted by the Scottish Tartans Authority as the tartan of their corporate identity, in line with general policy of the time, to avoid the proliferation of tartans. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.48
- Unidentified #32 — ΔT 0.58
- Skene N — ΔT 0.64
- Skene N — ΔT 0.64
- Dama Resort (Fashion) — ΔT 0.68
- Robieson, Graham Alexander (Personal) — ΔT 0.89
- Unidentified #2 — ΔT 0.90
- Dama Resort — ΔT 0.91
- Scott #2 — ΔT 0.99
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.
ID: /setts/s11/k32ka4b4ka8g32r4k30ka12b4k6b8-b5c8ca8-g285800-k101010-ka00002c-rc80000/