Buie
Bands: RKR · Stripes: R K R R K R
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 3 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=436
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1968 — Buie (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1968 — Buie (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — Buie Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1590. Earliest known date: pre 2003 A sample of this tartan was recorded by the Scottish Tartans Society during the period 1970 to 1990. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 436
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1590
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1590
Thread count
R/8 K12 R/72

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | K #000000 | 0.00 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- International Karate Fed. (Corporat) — ΔT 1.95
- Buie — ΔT 2.40
- Roddy "Rowdy" Piper (Personal) — ΔT 2.42
- Masai Shuka 07 (Artefact) — ΔT 2.57
- Martin, Robert N (Personal) — ΔT 2.58
- Masai Shuka 12 (Artefact) — ΔT 2.71
- Masai Shuka 20 (Artefact) — ΔT 2.82
- Masai Shuka 21 (Artefact) — ΔT 2.82
- Masai Shuka 18 (Artefact) — ΔT 2.83
- University of Chicago (Corporate) — ΔT 2.89
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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