Mitchell Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2142. Earliest known date: 1816-20 Named in honour of General Billy Mitchell when it was adopted as the tartan of the United States Air Force pipe band. The sett is also known as Russell, Hunter and Galbraith. The earliest reference to the tartan is in the collection of the Highland Society of London where it is labelled Galbraith. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
Bands: KGKRBW · Stripes: K G K R DB W K G K R DB W
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 6 band tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2142
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
K/6 G16 K16 R4 DB16 LN/4
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 #2A418A | 0.06 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Russell (Clan) — ΔT 0.57
- Davidson, Double — ΔT 0.68
- Gala Water Old — ΔT 0.70
- Wellington, or Waterloo — ΔT 0.84
- Dyce #3 — ΔT 0.86
- MacCaughan, or MacEachain — ΔT 0.89
- MacKean Dress (Personal) — ΔT 0.92
- Vosko — ΔT 0.95
- Friebe (2014) — ΔT 0.96
- Hinnigan (Personal) — ΔT 0.96
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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