Cowal Highland Gathering
In pattern BBBGBGBGG.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=780
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1994 — Cowal Highland Gathering (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1994 — Cowal Highland Gathering (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
DG/8 G32 DN4 G4 DN4 G4 DN32 DB36 N/4

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | B #2C4084 | 0.07 |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | G #006400 | 0.16 |
| DN | #14283C #14283C | B #2C4084 | 0.14 |
| G | #5C6428 #5C6428 | G #006400 | 0.09 |
| N | #5C5C5C #5C5C5C | B #2C4084 | 0.14 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Cowal Highland Games Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2536. Earliest known date: 1994 The Cowal Highland Gathering takes place on the last weekend of August each year in Dunoon, Argyllshire, on the Firth of Clyde and is the largest, most spectacular Highland Games in the world with thousands of dancers, pipers, drummers and athletes attending from all over the world. In 1994, the centenary year of the Gathering, this soft muted tartan in blues and greens was designed. Only available from Bells of Dunoon - michael.boyce@telco4u.net (Sept. 2004) See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.21
- West of Wells (Personal) — ΔT 1.30
- Ithilien Heather (Personal) — ΔT 1.31
- Sound of Mull — ΔT 1.36
- MacAndreis — ΔT 1.36
- Richard of Wales — ΔT 1.42
- Homecoming (Fashion) — ΔT 1.49
- Linden Family Tartan Tartan Number: 5772. Earliest known date: Jan 2003 Blue and white from the saltire. Purple and green from the thistle. The name Linden is associated with the colour green. The Linden tree is a lime tree. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.50
- Protheroe (Welsh Name) — ΔT 1.51
- Cairngorm #2 — ΔT 1.55
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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