Young Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2048. Earliest known date: 1991 Based on the Christina Young blanket dating from 1726 and preserved at the Scottish Tartans Society museum in Keith, Banffshire. The design retains the unusual purple - yellow - orange box check of the original blanket and changes only the ground colour to the greens and blues of the Douglas tartan. There are 7 colours. Black is normally replaced by dark blue in commercial weaving. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
Bands: KBGBRYYR · Stripes: K DB G DB M LO LY M K DB G DB M LO LY M
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 8 band tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2048
Thread count
K/6 DB6 G30 DBa30 P10 O6 Y4 P/2

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 #2A418A | 0.06 |
| DBa | #202060 #202060 | B #2A418A | 0.11 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| O | #D87C00 #D87C00 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.17 |
| P | #B468AC #B468AC | R #CC0000 | 0.21 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Young — ΔT 0.78
- Julien Pigeut Tartan Tartan Number: 6574. Earliest known date: 2004 For the wedding of Julien and Sylvia Piguet. Also worn by Roland Mathez best man of Julien. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.85
- Carnegie of Skibo Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 8314. Earliest known date: December 2001 Only available from Robert Mathieson, The Kilt Centre, 1 Campbell Lane, Hamilton. ML3 6DB. Scotland. Tel: +44 (0)1698 200 234. e-mail: kiltcentre@btconnect.com Lochcarron swatch. A corporate tartan for use in kilt hire. The name was chosen to imbue the tartan with some relevant provenance - Andrew Carnegie's retirement residence. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.92
- Carnegie of Skibo (Corporate) — ΔT 0.94
- Iowa (District) — ΔT 0.98
- Kildrummie (Name) — ΔT 1.06
- Bullman (Name) — ΔT 1.08
- Campbell Hunting — ΔT 1.14
- Silversea — ΔT 1.20
- Loch Awe — ΔT 1.21
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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