Perthshire or Drummond District Tartan Tartan Number: 1670. Earliest known date: c.1819 Perthshire is known as the gateway to the Highlands. The Perthshire tartan is similar to a the Drummond sett, the tartan of a Drummond clan who had extensive lands in the district. The first record of this tartan is in the early nineteenth century account book of Wilson's of Bannockburn where it is referred to as the 'Perthshire Rock and Wheel' being an early type of soft tartan. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
In pattern RWBYGRBBW.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1670
Also known as
This cloth is also recorded under:
- Perthshire, or Drummond
Thread count
R/82 LN4 P10 Y4 G42 R18 P10 DB6 LN/4
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #202060 #202060 | B #2A418A | 0.11 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| P | #780078 #780078 | B #2A418A | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Perthshire, or Drummond — ΔT 0.28
- MacArthur-Fox Dress — ΔT 0.72
- MacArthur-Fox Dress (Personal) — ΔT 0.76
- Lambert (Front Royal) Greer — ΔT 0.79
- Lambert Greer (Personal) — ΔT 0.81
- Drummond Ancient — ΔT 0.84
- Drummond, (Fingask) — ΔT 0.84
- Perth - 1819 (District) — ΔT 0.97
- Followers' Plaid — ΔT 0.98
- Chisholm #2 — ΔT 0.99
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.
ID: /setts/s9/r41w2dp5ly2g21r9dp5db3w2~x2/