Setting Sun, The
Bands: BWRBWYBRBYRWBYWYBWRYBRBYWBRWBY · Stripes: DO LB O DO LB LO DO O DO LO O LB DO LO LB LO DO LB O LO DO O DO LO LB DO O LB DO LO DO LB O DO LB LO DO O DO LO O LB DO LO LB LO DO LB O LO DO O DO LO LB DO O LB DO LO
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 30 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4878
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 4878
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3199
Thread count
DR/8 N16 O36 DR4 N4 DY8 DR4 O12 DR32 DY4 O4 N12 DR4 DY6 N2 DY6 DR4 N12 O4 DY4 DR32 O12 DR4 DY8 N4 DR4 O36 N16 DR8 DY/30

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR | #441800 #441800 | B #2A418A | 0.23 |
| DY | #D09800 #D09800 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.12 |
| N | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.17 |
| O | #E86000 #E86000 | R #CC0000 | 0.14 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Highland Aircraft — ΔT 1.23
- Setting Sun, The (Fashion) — ΔT 1.31
- Maple Leaf Dress — ΔT 1.80
- MacGlashan — ΔT 1.94
- Satchidananda (Personal) — ΔT 1.98
- Highland Aircraft — ΔT 1.98
- MacDougall Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1776. Earliest known date: 1977 Matched to a sample by B Urquhart in 2004, from Lochcarron reiver cloth. The purple colour was lightened considerably to a pale mauve, giving an almost equal prominence to the white. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 2.00
- Waverley Check — ΔT 2.02
- Wilson, Janet (1780 Original) — ΔT 2.02
- MacKinnon — ΔT 2.03
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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