Heddle Clan/Family Tartan Tartan Number: 6775. Earliest known date: 2003 June Designed by Scott Heddle for his wedding. Grandfather John Robert heddle wrote, "As the oldest surviving member of the Heddle family in Stromness, Orkney, I am, as head of the Clan, proud to sign this note as documentary evidence supporting the application for recording the Heddle Tartan ... which was conceived by my grandson, Scott Heddle, second son of my eldest John Flett Heddle, Stromness, KW16 3DA." Signed, 23rd June 2004. Scott Heddle wore the newly designed tartan at his wedding in St Magnus Cathedral on 28th June 2003, and it was unanimously agreed by all members of the family that this would become the tartan of the Heddle Clan. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
Bands: BKBYBKBBBKBBBKBBBKBYBKBW · Stripes: DP K DB LY DB K DB DP DB K DB DP DB K DB DP DB K DB LY DB K DP W DP K DB LY DB K DB DP DB K DB DP DB K DB DP DB K DB LY DB K DP W
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 24 band tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=6775
Thread count
P/24 K4 DB8 Y4 DB8 K4 DB4 P16 DB4 K4 DB48 P16 DB48 K4 DB4 P16 DB4 K4 DB8 Y4 DB8 K4 P24 W/6
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 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| P | #780078 #780078 | B #2A418A | 0.17 |
| W | #F8F8F8 #F8F8F8 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.00 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Serenade — ΔT 1.40
- Burns, Virginia (Personal) — ΔT 1.45
- Heddle — ΔT 1.49
- Tartan Army Corporate/Sport Tartan Tartan Number: 2389. Earliest known date: 1997 A tartan designed for the Scottish football supporters at the 1997 World Cup. The supporters were affectionately known as the Tartan Army. A strick code of conduct earned the supporters praise worldwide. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.57
- Solway Spirit — ΔT 1.63
- Custer Personal Tartan Tartan Number: 6421. Earliest known date: 2004 For the wedding of Patrick Custer and Eliabeth Hull See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.67
- Pride of Norway (Fashion) — ΔT 1.76
- Scotland 1782 — ΔT 1.78
- Institute of Directors (Corporate) — ΔT 1.87
- Midnight Sunrise — ΔT 1.87
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.
ID: /setts/s24/dp12k2db4ly2db4k2db2dp8db2k2db24dp8db24k2db2dp8db2k2db4ly2db4k2dp12w3~x2/