Womens Rural Institute

In pattern BGRGKBGG.

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripes tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4778

Attestations

This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.

Thread count

DG/8 G48 DP8 K12 DG8 DR6 DG8 DP/6 Sett

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

ColourShadeBaseΔE (OKLab)
DG#003820 #003820G #0064000.16
DP#440044 #440044B #2C40840.17
DR#880000 #880000R #C800000.14
G#408060 #408060G #0064000.13
K#101010 #101010K #0000000.17

Sample pattern

Tartan detail

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

  1. Gloucester County Pipe Band (Corp) — ΔT 0.66
  2. Stewart of Appin Htg (Clan) — ΔT 0.76
  3. Scottish Power (Corporate) — ΔT 0.82
  4. Stewart of Appin Hunting Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 430. Earliest known date: 1930-50 There is extensive correspondence about the use of the terms 'ancient' and 'hunting' in relation to this sett in the Stewart files at the Scottish Tartan Society. The use of brown makes this sett proportionately similar to the count recorded by James Scarlett as early nineteenth century. He says that the brown was probably black originally. (No. 417, The Highland Textile, 1990) See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.85
  5. Scott #2 — ΔT 0.85
  6. Scottish Chamber Orchestra, The — ΔT 0.90
  7. Tennessee — ΔT 0.94
  8. Stewart of Appin, Ancient hunting — ΔT 0.98
  9. Skene (Maclan) — ΔT 0.98
  10. Gorman, George (Personal) — ΔT 1.00

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.

Gloucester County Pipe Band (Corp)Stewart of Appin Htg (Clan)Scottish Power (Corporate)Stewart of Appin Hunting Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 430. Earliest known date: 1930-50 There is extensive correspondence about the use of the terms 'ancient' and 'hunting' in relation to this sett in the Stewart files at the Scottish Tartan Society. The use of brown makes this sett proportionately similar to the count recorded by James Scarlett as early nineteenth century. He says that the brown was probably black originally. (No. 417, The Highland Textile, 1990) See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015Scott #2Scottish Chamber Orchestra, TheTennesseeStewart of Appin, Ancient huntingSkene (Maclan)Gorman, George (Personal)

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