Caithness District Tartan Tartan Number: 2466. Earliest known date: (Feb, 2001) Designed by Trudi Mann of Wick and incorporating colours of Caithness, including the unique blue grey Caithness flagstone. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
In pattern BYBWBYBYRRBRBRG.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 15 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2466
Thread count
DR/2 LT6 DR4 LN4 DR6 LT10 DR16 LT4 N16 R6 DR4 N4 DR4 R6 T/56
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR | #441800 #441800 | B #2C4084 | 0.22 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
| LT | #A08858 #A08858 | Y #E8C000 | 0.21 |
| N | #888888 #888888 | R #C80000 | 0.24 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
| T | #604000 #604000 | G #006400 | 0.14 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Caithness — ΔT 0.82
- Sommerville Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1861. Earliest known date: 1930 The specimen in the Society's collection was obtained about 1930 from the firm J Johnston of Edinburgh. It was descibed at the time as a modern family tartan. The cloth archive also contains a sample from the Lochcarron weavers. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.15
- Sommerville — ΔT 1.19
- North West Mounted Police (Commemo) — ΔT 1.22
- Langermann (Name) — ΔT 1.26
- Hamish Bicknell (Personal) — ΔT 1.26
- Flodden — ΔT 1.28
- Ryutokukan High School (Corporate) — ΔT 1.28
- Berwick -upon-Tweed (asymmetric) — ΔT 1.32
- MacColl, Ancient — ΔT 1.33
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 15726 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/s15/g56r6b4ra4b4r6ra16y4b16y10b6w4b4y6b2-b441800-g604000-rc80000-ra888888-we0e0e0-ya08858/