Bowie, Black (Name)
Bands: BRBRBRKGRGYK · Stripes: B R B R B R K DG R DG LO K B R B R B R K DG R DG LO K
This was sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 12 band tartan.
Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/3716/
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 1990 — Bowie, Black (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — Bowie, Black (register-of-tartans, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 5268
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3716
Thread count
B/18 R6 B6 R10 B32 R4 K34 G32 R10 G6 DY2 K/18
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #1870A4 #1870A4 | B #2A418A | 0.13 |
| DY | #D09800 #D09800 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.12 |
| G | #285800 #285800 | G #006100 | 0.03 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Cameron of Erracht (Clan) — ΔT 0.63
- Wilson's No.232 — ΔT 0.66
- MacLeod — ΔT 0.78
- MacMillan Htg (1906) (Clan) — ΔT 0.79
- MacDonell of Glengarry #2 — ΔT 0.79
- MacKusick (Piper) #1 (Personal) — ΔT 0.80
- New Zealand (2003) — ΔT 0.81
- Logan #7 — ΔT 0.87
- MacDonell of Glengarry #3 — ΔT 0.89
- Bowie — ΔT 0.89
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.
ID: /setts/s12/b9r3b3r5b16r2k17dg16r5dg3lo1k9~x2/