Forbes

Bands: BKBKBKGKWKGKBKB · Stripes: DB K DB K DB K G K W K G K DB K DB DB K DB K DB K G K W K G K DB K DB

This was sourced from weddslist. It is a 15 band tartan.

Original link http://www.weddslist.com/cgi-bin/tartans/pg.pl?source=sts

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

Variants

Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.

Thread count

B/34 K6 B6 K6 B6 K32 G30 K4 LN6 K4 G30 K32 B32 K6 B/6 Sett

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

ColourShadeBaseΔE (OKLab)
B#304080 #304080B #2A418A0.02
G#008000 #008000G #0061000.10
K#000000 #000000K #0000000.00
LN#E0E0E0 #E0E0E0W #F7F7F70.07

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

  1. Safeway — ΔT 0.36
  2. Forbes — ΔT 0.38
  3. Stephenson, hunting — ΔT 0.51
  4. Arbuthnott — ΔT 0.52
  5. MacKinlay — ΔT 0.56
  6. Gordon 2 — ΔT 0.64
  7. Gordon 4 — ΔT 0.69
  8. Cheape — ΔT 0.81
  9. Norwich No.115 — ΔT 0.84
  10. Gordon 5 — 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.

SafewayForbesStephenson, huntingArbuthnottMacKinlayGordon 2Gordon 4CheapeNorwich No.115Gordon 5

ID: /setts/s15/db17k3db3k3db3k16g15k2w3k2g15k16db16k3db3~x2/

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