Cairngorm
Bands: BWYRBW · Stripes: N W LY O N W N W LY O N W
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=462
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1963 — Cairngorm (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1963 — Cairngorm (1963) (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 462
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1314
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1314
Thread count
N/4 W4 LG14 Na28 N4 W/4

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| LG | #D4D07C #D4D07C | Y #F2BF00 | 0.08 |
| N | #5C5C5C #5C5C5C | B #2A418A | 0.15 |
| Na | #888888 #888888 | R #CC0000 | 0.24 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Cairngorm — ΔT 0.88
- Trinity Bicycles (Corporate) — ΔT 1.10
- Lochnagar Plaid (District) — ΔT 1.46
- S.I.D.E. (Corporate) — ΔT 1.47
- MacPherson Dress Blue (Dance) #2 — ΔT 1.53
- Beck-McSorley — ΔT 1.55
- Bagpipe Shop (Switzerland) — ΔT 1.57
- Lochnagar Trade Tartan Tartan Number: 1771. Earliest known date: pre 2003 Colours represents the Scottish hills, the water, and the heather. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.62
- MacGibboney (Name) — ΔT 1.63
- Clyde — ΔT 1.64
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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