Martin
In pattern KBKGKGKGY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2841
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1980 — Martin (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 1980 — Martin (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2841
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1207
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1207
Thread count
DY/16 G40 K12 G12 K12 G12 K36 DR44 K/12

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR | #4C0000 #4C0000 | B #2A418A | 0.25 |
| DY | #D09800 #D09800 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.12 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Wilson's No.112 (Light Blue) — ΔT 1.06
- Ramsay Hunting Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1198. Earliest known date: pre 2003 This sample comes from the MacGregor-Hastie collection which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. Some of the samples, including this one, were unmarked. One can assume that the sample dates between 1930 and 1950. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.08
- Unidentified No 30 — ΔT 1.18
- Walker James — ΔT 1.22
- MacDiarmid #3 — ΔT 1.28
- Unidentified Pinafore — ΔT 1.33
- Cameron (altered by weaver) — ΔT 1.34
- Selkirk (Personal) Original — ΔT 1.40
- Wellington (Wilson) #2 — ΔT 1.41
- Lennie Family Tartan Tartan Number: 725. Earliest known date: 1819 Wilson's No 231. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.43
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14299 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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