Melville
Bands: KBKGWK · Stripes: K T K G W K K T K G W K
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2914
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1847 — Melville (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 1847 — Melville (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2914
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6328
Thread count
K/4 B24 K26 G26 W4 K/8
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #608C9C #608C9C | B #2A418A | 0.23 |
| G | #408060 #408060 | G #006100 | 0.14 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Triad Highland Games Proposed — ΔT 0.74
- Wellington, or Waterloo — ΔT 0.74
- Waterloo — ΔT 0.77
- Daks, Navy — ΔT 0.89
- Herd/Hurd — ΔT 0.90
- Wellington, or Waterloo — ΔT 0.92
- Murray — ΔT 0.93
- MacTavish / Thom(p)son, hunting — ΔT 0.95
- Wellington or Waterloo — ΔT 0.97
- MacArthur of Milton, hunting — ΔT 0.99
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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