Thomas Newcomen's Combustion Engine
Bands: BWRK · Stripes: DB W R K DB W R K
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 4 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10849
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 03/04/2013 — Thomas Newcomen's Combustion Engine (register-of-tartans, record)
- 2013 — Thomas Newcomen's Combustion Engine (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 10849
Thread count
B/8 W12 R20 K/28

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #0000CD #0000CD | B #2A418A | 0.14 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #FF0000 #FF0000 | R #CC0000 | 0.11 |
| W | #FFFFFF #FFFFFF | W #F7F7F7 | 0.02 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- SAL Glindrande Stiernan — ΔT 1.25
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- Austin / Wilson's No 137 — ΔT 1.44
- Heidrick Family (Personal) — ΔT 1.48
- Hamby Sport (Personal) — ΔT 1.53
- Austin / Wilson's No 173 — ΔT 1.53
- Battle of Prestonpans (1745) Herit — ΔT 1.64
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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