Balmoral (Royal)
Bands: RWKWBWBWKBWRW · Stripes: R LB K LB N LB N LB K N LB R LB R LB K LB N LB N LB K N LB R LB
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=182
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1853 — Balmoral (Royal) (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1853 — Balmoral (Royal) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 182
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1300
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1300
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
Na/10 R6 Na48 N14 K12 Na6 N6 Na6 N22 Na12 K6 Na6 R/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| N | #5C5C5C #5C5C5C | B #2A418A | 0.15 |
| Na | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Balmoral (Green) (Royal) — ΔT 0.50
- Balmoral — ΔT 0.68
- Balmoral — ΔT 0.77
- Balmoral Gillies (Royal) — ΔT 0.82
- Balmoral (Ghillies white variation) — ΔT 0.86
- Balmoral — ΔT 0.89
- Balmoral — ΔT 0.89
- Balmoral Variant (Corporate) — ΔT 0.97
- Balmoral — ΔT 1.07
- Balmoral (Jack Allen) — ΔT 1.11
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/s13/lb5r3lb24n7k6lb3n3lb3n11lb6k3lb3r3~x2/