Reflections of the Sea
In pattern BBGBGBBGBBGY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3486
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1972 — Reflections of the Sea (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 1972 — Reflections of the Sea (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3486
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5419
Thread count
B/6 Ba12 G24 B28 G4 Ba34 B6 G2 B6 Ba34 G4 LB/6

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 |
| Ba | #3850C8 #3850C8 | B #2A418A | 0.11 |
| G | #285800 #285800 | G #006100 | 0.03 |
| LB | #0CDCB4 #0CDCB4 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.22 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Pride of Lorient (Fashion) — ΔT 1.60
- Leith — ΔT 1.62
- Clydebank (Fashion) — ΔT 1.69
- Banff & Buchan (District) — ΔT 1.74
- Sutherland #3 — ΔT 1.75
- Mercer Blue Personal Tartan Tartan Number: 5880. Earliest known date: 2001 Designed by Dr P{hil Smith of TECA for Charles Mercer of Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Can be worn by all of the name. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.76
- Mercer, Charles — ΔT 1.85
- Leonard (Name) — ΔT 1.89
- MacKerrell — ΔT 1.91
- Caledonian Club — ΔT 1.94
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/s12/b3b6dg12b14dg2b17b3dg1b3b17dg2lg3~x2/