Ruthven Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1521. Earliest known date: 1842 The name Ruthven comes from the old Barony of Ruthven in Angus. Ruthvens were Earls of Gowrie at the time of James VI of Scotland. More recently Sir Alexander Hore- Ruthven of Freeland, Governor General of Australia, was created Earl of Gowrie in 1945. The Ruthven tartan was not named until the publication of the romantic fiction known as the Vestiarium Scoticum in 1842. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
In pattern RGRBGW.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 6 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1521
Thread count
LN/6 G30 DB36 R60 G2 R/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 #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Ruthven — ΔT 0.43
- Ruthven — ΔT 0.80
- Fraser (1745) — ΔT 0.83
- Ruthven — ΔT 0.88
- Ruthven — ΔT 0.88
- Abernethy (Colerain USA) (Personal) — ΔT 1.06
- Shaw — ΔT 1.09
- Fraser — ΔT 1.13
- MacKintosh Geddes — ΔT 1.15
- Unidentified #20 — ΔT 1.16
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 15726 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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