Cumming/Comyn/Buchan

In pattern BKRGRKRGRKBRGRKRBKRKRGR.

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 23 stripes tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=841

Thread count

B/2 K12 R2 G16 R2 K2 R2 G16 R2 K12 B2 R12 G12 R2 K16 R2 B2 K2 R2 K16 R2 G12 R/12

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. Cumming Comyn Buchan Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 2012. Earliest known date: pre 2003 D.C.Stewart comments, "Still further confusion has arisen from Smibert's illustration.." The present editor is none the wiser. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.33
2. Cumming Hunting — ΔT 0.44
3. Kilbarchan Unidentified No. 7 — ΔT 0.86
4. North Berwick Pipe Band District Tartan Tartan Number: 2342. Earliest known date: 1990 Designed by Donald Fraser for the North Berwick Pipe Band dancers for their visit to Maine USA in 1990. The Pipe Band itself normally wears McKenzie. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.96
5. Johnnie Walker (2003) — ΔT 1.16
6. Innes of Cowie (Clan?) — ΔT 1.22
7. Wilson Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 626. Earliest known date: 1780 Named after Janet Wilson, wife of the Bannockburn weaver, William Wilson who manufactured tartans from 1765. It is suggested in the extensive archives of the company that the tartan was prepared for the wedding in 1780 between the William Wilson, the son of the founder, and Janet Paterson. The sett was later introduced as the Wilson family tartan. Variations show blue instead of purple in the broad band and blue instead of azure (light blue) in the narrow stripes. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.24
8. Wilson (Clan) — ΔT 1.26
9. Reid Red Clan/Family Tartan Tartan Number: 5415. Earliest known date: pre 1991 Found in Dalgleish swatch files 1991, but in use long before then. known to be worn by James Reid of Washington D.C. Modification of Robertson. see 1428 for "Reid - green" designed by Phil Smith 1991 for Wm. M. Reid, Jr. (perhaps without knowledge of the previously existing "Reid - red"). See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.27
10. Blackburn Appalachian Hunting — ΔT 1.30

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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