Heriot Watt University

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This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 stripes tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1693

Attestations

This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.

• 01/11/1996 — Heriot Watt University (register-of-tartans, record)
• undated — Heriot Watt University Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2407. Earliest known date: 1996 Created in 1996 for the 30th anniversary of the Grant of the University's charter. Count from a tie supplied by the Development Officer of the University. Sample in STA's Johnston Collection- notes say from MacPhersons of Edinburgh by Ingles Buchan. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)

Thread count

Ba/64 DB2 Gb32 DR4 Gb4 DN36 Ba8 DY2 Gb10 DY2 Ba8 DN36 Gb4 DR4 Gb32 DB2 Ba64 DN/6

Palette

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

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. Coopers & Lybrand Corporate Commem. Tartan Tartan Number: 2303. Earliest known date: 1996 Designed by Deirdre Nicholls of Celtic Silks. May 1996. Swatch in STA's Johnston Collection. Dark green, red and blue called for but lighter shades used here to display sett. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.10
2. Heriot Watt University (Corporate) — ΔT 1.21
3. Greenshields (Personal) — ΔT 1.26
4. St Lawrence District Tartan Tartan Number: 1030. Earliest known date: pre 1963 Presented to the STS collection by Mr A Yule in 1963. designed by Mrs. Helene Cobb of Clayton and is the registered trademark of the Thousand Islands Museum in Clayton, New York State - www.timuseum.org Woven by Peter MacArthur of Biggar, Scotland. The greens are for the cedars along the shore, the blues are for the St Lawrence River, and the red is the sunset over the Islands. John Fitzpatrick in his review of Canadian tartans in July 2008, pointed out that there were two slightly different thread counts given in the CIDD. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.35
5. Huaumé, Patrick Antoine (Personal) — ΔT 1.40
6. Spirit of Morningside — ΔT 1.41
7. State Seal of Maryland (Fashion) — ΔT 1.42
8. Weisfeld — ΔT 1.43
9. Storrie — ΔT 1.44
10. Coopers & Lybrand — ΔT 1.46

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.

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