Aberlour
In pattern WKWKWKRY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=21
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/07/2001 — Aberlour (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 2003 — Aberlour (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
LR/46 K8 LR8 K8 LR8 K44 T46 LT/10
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LR | #E8CCB8 #E8CCB8 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.11 |
| LT | #A08858 #A08858 | Y #E8C000 | 0.21 |
| R | #CC4438 #CC4438 | R #C80000 | 0.07 |
| Ra | #A03400 #A03400 | R #C80000 | 0.08 |
| Rb | #B03000 #B03000 | R #C80000 | 0.05 |
| T | #98481C #98481C | R #C80000 | 0.11 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Holden Beige (Corporate) — ΔT 0.31
- Holden Brown (Corporate) — ΔT 0.47
- Edinburgh, City of — ΔT 0.95
- Fraser Dress — ΔT 1.03
- Thompson Grey Dress — ΔT 1.03
- Merrilees — ΔT 1.05
- Al Suwaidi of Abu Dhabi (Personal) — ΔT 1.08
- Daks (Brown) — ΔT 1.09
- Meg Merrilees Fancy Tartan Tartan Number: 1602. Earliest known date: 1831 Miss McDougall, Inverness library, says in her notes:The first mention I had of this tartan was in an advertisment by D MacDougall, Draper, 27 High St., Inverness in 1831 . . . Meg Merrilees and other winter shawls. From Dalgety Archives. STS notes that it was sold by Forsyth's in Glasgow in 1840. Meg Merrilees was a character in one of Scotts novels, Guy Mannering. BU See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.10
- MacKintosh Dress (Scott Adie) — ΔT 1.13
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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