Praetorian Blue
In pattern WKYBKWWWKWWBWW.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5866
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 5866
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7837
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 3136
Thread count
W/6 DB6 Y6 DBa48 K6 N6 W48 N6 K48 N6 W6 DBa48 N6 W/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #000040 #000040 | K #000000 | 0.20 |
| DBa | #004080 #004080 | B #2A418A | 0.04 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| N | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.17 |
| W | #FFFFFF #FFFFFF | W #F7F7F7 | 0.02 |
| Y | #FFFF00 #FFFF00 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.16 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Manchester City Football Club "Blue Moon" — ΔT 0.89
- Les Coeurs de Lions en Bleu — ΔT 0.93
- Praetorian, Blue (Fashion) — ΔT 1.05
- Manchester City Football Club "Blue — ΔT 1.05
- Citadel Military Academy Regimental Tartan Tartan Number: 1572. Earliest known date: 1980 Submitted to STS Monitoring Committee March 1982. South Carolina Military School. Ludovic Grant-Alexander possibly designer (Bob Marton) at that time, head of the Citadel Piping School. Woven by Dalgleish, 1980. Changed background to azure in 2007 following advice from C Adams. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.11
- Haymarket Dress (Dance) — ΔT 1.14
- Anderson-Moffat (Personal) — ΔT 1.17
- Hamburg #2 (Corporate) — ΔT 1.18
- Hamburg 2 — ΔT 1.21
- Lashbrooke of Barrowfield (Personal) — ΔT 1.22
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.
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