Gow Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1390. Earliest known date: c.1815 This tartan can be seen in a portrait of Neil Gow, by Sir Henry Raeburn. Possibly the basis for the design of later tartans. The Gows or MacGowans were associated with the MacDonalds and the Clan Chattan. Gow is Gaelic for Smith meaning blacksmith. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
In pattern RBRGR.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 5 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1390
Thread count
R/16 DB16 R4 DG16 R/16
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 #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | G #006400 | 0.16 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Gow — ΔT 0.34
- MacGowan — ΔT 0.48
- Gow — ΔT 0.68
- Gow — ΔT 0.83
- Gow (Portrait) — ΔT 0.85
- Menzies — ΔT 1.48
- Menzies — ΔT 1.48
- Tulsa, City of — ΔT 1.56
- Fiddes (Corrected) — ΔT 1.63
- MacDuff #3 — ΔT 1.68
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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