Royal Air Force
In pattern RBBBBBBBRBW.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3586
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1988 — Royal Air Force (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1989, July — Royal Air Force (Military) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
DR/6 B4 Ba14 B6 Ba40 DBa8 DB16 B40 DR6 B14 LN/4
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 #2C4084 | 0.15 |
| Ba | #2888C4 #2888C4 | B #2C4084 | 0.21 |
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | B #2C4084 | 0.07 |
| DBa | #1C0070 #1C0070 | B #2C4084 | 0.14 |
| DR | #901C38 #901C38 | R #C80000 | 0.12 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Caledonian Club — ΔT 1.67
- Great Scot — ΔT 1.87
- Banff & Buchan (District) — ΔT 1.97
- Un-named (D C Dalgliesh) #2 — ΔT 1.98
- Glaz (Fashion) — ΔT 1.99
- Pride of Lorient (Fashion) — ΔT 2.00
- Patel Name Tartan Tartan Number: 10924. Earliest known date: 2013 Designed for the Patel family using colours associated with the Gujarat, a state in the North-West coast of India known locally as Jewel of the West. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 2.01
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals — ΔT 2.01
- Great Scot (Fashion) — ΔT 2.06
- Poulter, Blue (Corprate) — ΔT 2.07
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/r6b4ba14b6ba40bb8bc16b40r6b14w4-b1474b4-ba2888c4-bb1c0070-bc003c64-r901c38-we0e0e0/