MacDiarmid #3
Bands: RGKWKGKRKR · Stripes: R DG K W K DG K R K R R DG K W K DG K R K R
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2331
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2331
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1473
Thread count
R/2 G12 K2 LN2 K2 G12 K12 R6 K12 R/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| G | #005020 #005020 | G #006100 | 0.07 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| R | #DC0000 #DC0000 | R #CC0000 | 0.03 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Walker James — ΔT 0.76
- O'Neill (District) — ΔT 0.96
- Montrose — ΔT 1.13
- Montrose — ΔT 1.13
- MacDonald #8 — ΔT 1.17
- Wilson's No.175 — ΔT 1.18
- Wilson's No.160 — ΔT 1.18
- Daks — ΔT 1.20
- Tyndrum District Tartan Tartan Number: 1128. Earliest known date: 1983 Tyndrum is a village in northwest Perthshire on the rail line between Glasgow and Fort William. Specimen seen in Mairi MacIntyre's shop, Fort William 1983. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.20
- MacDiarmid — ΔT 1.24
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 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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