Alexander Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1405. Earliest known date: 1984 The weaving and wearing of this tartan is 'Restricted'. This is not a legal definition and is applied by the Scottish Tartans Society irrespective of Design Patent or Copyright, in the spirit of a gentlemans agreement. Interested parties should contact the person listed under 'Source:' in this document. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
In pattern RBRBKGRGR.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 9 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1405
Thread count
R/24 DB4 R8 DB8 K30 G8 R8 G4 R/24
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 #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Alexander - 1985 (Name) — ΔT 0.32
- Morrison LC — ΔT 0.79
- Morrison LC — ΔT 0.79
- Alexander — ΔT 0.90
- Cameron of Locheil #3 — ΔT 0.94
- Cameron of Locheil — ΔT 0.94
- Clanton (Personal) — ΔT 0.94
- Cameron of Lochiel (Smith) Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1398. Earliest known date: 1764 According to I.B. Cameron Taylor from a portrait in Achnacarry of the Gentle Lochiel painted by George Chalmers in 1764. He wrote, "Of the unknown Cameron tartans in existence today, the Chief's personal tartan, the Cameron of Locheil, is undoubtably the oldest." See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.95
- Nicolson MacNicol — ΔT 0.95
- Cameron of Locheil #2 — ΔT 0.96
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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