Black Isle
Bands: KRKRKR · Stripes: K O K O K O K O K O K O
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=275
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 15/07/2003 — Black Isle (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 2004 — Black Isle (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 275
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6183
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2956
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
K/106 N44 K20 N20 K4 N/8

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| N | #888888 #888888 | R #CC0000 | 0.24 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Perry Ancient (Personal) — ΔT 1.12
- DDB Canada (Fashion) — ΔT 1.15
- Black Isle Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 6183. Earliest known date: 15/07/2003 Designed for Black Isle Pewter Limited by Robert Howarth Guibal of Black Isle Pewter. Threadcount taken from a Marton Mills swatch book. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.21
- Sunderland of Scotland (Fashion) — ΔT 1.39
- MacPhee MacFee or MacIver — ΔT 1.41
- Moffat (1984) — ΔT 1.51
- Douglas VS — ΔT 1.56
- Pride of New Zealand, The — ΔT 1.58
- Dobelman (Personal) — ΔT 1.65
- Watertown Library Assoc. (Corporate) — ΔT 1.66
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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