Blair
Bands: BRBKGRG · Stripes: DB R DB K G R G DB R DB K G R G
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=291
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 291
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 416
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 416
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
DBa/8 Ra2 DBa36 K40 Ga36 Ra2 Ga/8

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #1474B4 #1474B4 | B #2A418A | 0.15 |
| DB | #000048 #000048 | B #2A418A | 0.22 |
| DBa | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| DG | #044028 #044028 | G #006100 | 0.13 |
| G | #408060 #408060 | G #006100 | 0.14 |
| Ga | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #000000 #000000 | K #000000 | 0.00 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| Ra | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Meoni (Personal) — ΔT 0.74
- Dress Watch — ΔT 0.82
- Baird — ΔT 0.83
- Glenturret Distillery — ΔT 0.95
- Hebridean Old — ΔT 1.01
- Common Kilt — ΔT 1.02
- MacLeod — ΔT 1.10
- Graham of Menteith — ΔT 1.12
- Colquhoun VS — ΔT 1.14
- Herd Family Tartan Tartan Number: 170. Earliest known date: 1978 Woven for the wedding of William Hurd to Heather Petit. From JCT: STS monitoring committee recorded 1978. In march 2005. STS Record has the application being made by Councillor R J Herd, C.Eng, M.I.C.E., A.M.B.I.M. who had been granted arms by Lord Lyon. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.14
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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