Black and White Colourway
Bands: BRBWBGBGWGWGWGW · Stripes: DB R DB W DB DY DB DY W DY W DY W DY W DB R DB W DB DY DB DY W DY W DY W DY W
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=272
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/2002 — Black and White Colourway (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 2002 — Black & White Colourway (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 272
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2006
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2006
Thread count
DB/38 R8 DB10 W6 DB38 T12 DB6 T30 W6 T24 W18 T6 W40 T6 W/40

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| T | #604000 #604000 | G #006100 | 0.14 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Black and White — ΔT 0.52
- Black and White, Colourway — ΔT 0.72
- Unidentified #56 — ΔT 0.79
- Poulter, Pink (Corporate) — ΔT 0.86
- Poulter SG 103 (Fashion) — ΔT 0.90
- MacDonald, Flora (Dance) — ΔT 0.91
- Poulter SG 104 (Fashion) — ΔT 0.92
- Black and White — ΔT 0.95
- Poulter Tron — ΔT 1.10
- MacDonald Pattern of Plaids — ΔT 1.10
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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