Glasgow, City of District Tartan Tartan Number: 515. Earliest known date: 1819 Also known as 'Madder'. Marroon red is used in this illustration to convey what Wilson describes as madder. This colour, produced from plant dyes, is a dull shade of red. Rock and Wheel refers to an old form of manufacture. Worn by the City of Glasgow pp See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
Bands: GRKRGRK · Stripes: DG R K R DG R K DG R K R DG R K
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 7 band tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=515
Thread count
DP/4 R8 Ga54 R44 DP50 R8 Ga/56
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| Ga | #285800 #285800 | G #006100 | 0.03 |
| P | #780078 #780078 | B #2A418A | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Skene D — ΔT 1.19
- Strummer, Joe (Commemorative) — ΔT 1.19
- Logan - 1810 (Cockburn Collection) — ΔT 1.23
- New Glasgow (Canada) — ΔT 1.30
- Blackstock Hunting — ΔT 1.43
- MacMillan - 2002 (Black - Unofficial — ΔT 1.45
- Dickie — ΔT 1.51
- New Glasgow (Canada) — ΔT 1.51
- Skene - 1831 (Clan) — ΔT 1.57
- Logan, Dark — ΔT 1.57
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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