Irving of Bonshaw Tower (Personal)
Bands: RGBGBY · Stripes: R G DB G DB LR R G DB G DB LR
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1860
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1992 — Irving of Bonshaw Tower (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1993 — Irving of Bonshaw Tower (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — Irving of Bonshaw Tower Personal Tartan Tartan Number: 2490. Earliest known date: 1993 April 1993. Designed by Dr. J. Bruce Irving -- a colour variation of Irvine (733) - and regarded as a Personal tartan, not to be confused with the Clan/Family tartan 'Irving of Bonshaw' (2609) which predates this. 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: 1860
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2490
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2490
Thread count
DR/4 G6 DB4 G28 DB28 N/4

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | B #2A418A | 0.14 |
| DR | #880000 #880000 | R #CC0000 | 0.15 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| N | #B8B8B8 #B8B8B8 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.17 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Heritage Tartan, The — ΔT 0.70
- Thayer USA (Name) — ΔT 0.72
- Thayer USA — ΔT 0.78
- Notre Dame Marching Guard (Corp) — ΔT 0.84
- Michaluk (Personal) — ΔT 0.88
- MacIntyre L — ΔT 1.04
- Davidson, Half — ΔT 1.07
- Greenways Marketing Intl (Corporate) — ΔT 1.11
- Trafalgar (Fashion) — ΔT 1.11
- Douglas, Green (Wilsons) — ΔT 1.12
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/lr2db14g14db2g3r2~x2/