Independence
Bands: KYBYKYWYWYKY · Stripes: K LO B LO K LO LB LO LB LO K LO K LO B LO K LO LB LO LB LO K LO
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1821
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/08/1996 — Independence (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1996 — Independence Tartan (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — Independence Universal Tartan Tartan Number: 2285. Earliest known date: 1996 Designed by Donald Fraser 1996. Commissioned by New Scots for Independence and launched at a Scottish National Party (SNP) conference. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 1821
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2285
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2285
Thread count
DY/4 K4 DY2 N30 DY4 N4 DY4 K4 DY4 B32 DY4 K/4

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #3850C8 #3850C8 | B #2A418A | 0.11 |
| DY | #D09800 #D09800 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.12 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| N | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.17 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- IAPD (Corporate) — ΔT 0.64
- Oliphant Dress — ΔT 0.94
- Independence — ΔT 1.02
- IAPD — ΔT 1.16
- Walker Dress Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2070. Earliest known date: 1991 R.W.Hawks submitted this tartan via Phil Smith in January 1992. Hawks advised Oct. 1993 that he is agreeable for any Walkers to use this tartan. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.16
- Florida — ΔT 1.20
- Beaufort — ΔT 1.22
- International Council for Commercial Arbitration — ΔT 1.24
- Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland — ΔT 1.26
- Tweedsmuir Dress (Dance) — ΔT 1.31
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.
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