Bands: KRKWKY · Stripes: K R K LB K LO K R K LB K LO

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 band tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=269

Attestations

This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.

• 01/01/2003 — Black (symmetrical) (register-of-tartans, record)
• undated — Black Clan/Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2761. Earliest known date: pre 1945 In 1990, taken to a TECA stand at one of the US Highland Games by a Timothy Wood, who explained that his faher had 'found' it in a shop in northern England during World War II. 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: 269
• Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3693
• Scottish Tartans World Register: 2671

Variants

Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.

• Dunbar (District)

Thread count

DY/4 K34 N12 K4 DR12 K/34

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

Sample pattern

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. Black 1990 (Name) — ΔT 0.33
2. Benson (New England) — ΔT 0.58
3. St. Eloi — ΔT 1.18
4. Anzac (Fashion) — ΔT 1.19
5. Cowe (Personal) — ΔT 1.20
6. Punky Princess (Fashion) — ΔT 1.31
7. Justus Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2100. Earliest known date: 1990 Submitted as the Justus family sett but awaits the approval of the proposed Justus Family Society of North America. Sample supplied in 9 tpi. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.33
8. Callaway (Corporate) — ΔT 1.36
9. London Fog Black 2 (fashion) — ΔT 1.37
10. New Zealand District Tartan Tartan Number: 3250. Earliest known date: 2000 Designed as a District sett by Timely Marketing Promotions, Christchurch, New Zealand See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.43

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/s6/k17r6k2lb6k17lo2~x2/