Puffin (Personal)
In pattern KWKWGWGWR.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3419
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/02/1997 — Puffin (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1997 — Puffin (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
K/16 W4 K4 W36 G4 W4 G4 W4 T/16

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 #006400 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| T | #946400 #946400 | R #C80000 | 0.16 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F4F4F0 | 0.03 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Virtuoso — ΔT 1.02
- Forbes - 1880 (Clans Originaux) — ΔT 1.07
- Puffin — ΔT 1.19
- MacDiarmid Dress — ΔT 1.22
- MacDiarmid Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1486. Earliest known date: c.1830 This sett appears in Paton's collection which is housed at the Scottish Tartans Museum, Comrie in Perthshire, Scotland. The samples are undated but the collection is known to have been put together around the 1830's, with some additions during the Victorian period. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.22
- Lootens Jensen (Personal) — ΔT 1.30
- Balmoral (Ghillies white variation) — ΔT 1.33
- Virtuoso (Corporate) — ΔT 1.33
- MacPherson Dress (1951) — ΔT 1.34
- Balmoral — ΔT 1.35
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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