Breeding
Bands: RBBKBBKBKBKBKBKRKW · Stripes: R DT N K DT N K T K N K DT K DT K R K W R DT N K DT N K T K N K DT K DT K R K W
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=347
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/12/2005 — Breeding (register-of-tartans, record)
- Dec 2005 — Breeding (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 347
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6806
Thread count
DR/8 DB2 N12 K4 DB14 N8 K4 Ba4 K4 N8 K4 DB8 K4 DB12 K32 DR80 K4 W/12

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #2C3878 #2C3878 | B #2A418A | 0.04 |
| Ba | #2888B8 #2888B8 | B #2A418A | 0.21 |
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | B #2A418A | 0.08 |
| DBa | #202060 #202060 | B #2A418A | 0.11 |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | G #006100 | 0.15 |
| DR | #982428 #982428 | R #CC0000 | 0.10 |
| G | #005028 #005028 | G #006100 | 0.07 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| N | #60707C #60707C | B #2A418A | 0.17 |
| R | #FC0040 #FC0040 | R #CC0000 | 0.11 |
| W | #F0E8D0 #F0E8D0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.06 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Stewart/Stuart, Royal (No black line) — ΔT 1.00
- Caithness (District) — ΔT 1.03
- Holyrood (Chair) — ΔT 1.14
- Unidentified Specimen — ΔT 1.23
- Mehrtens (Personal) — ΔT 1.28
- MacDougall of MacDougall — ΔT 1.28
- Hay — ΔT 1.29
- Buchanan(Mtd)MacGregor Hastie V. Tartan Tartan Number: 6088. Earliest known date: Threadcount and colours aren't 100% original. Generated manually. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.30
- Hay or Leith — ΔT 1.31
- Unidentified, specimen — ΔT 1.34
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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