McAvoy (Personal)
In pattern WBRBGWGKGY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2869
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1975 — McAvoy (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1975 — McAvoy (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
LN/4 DB44 R2 DB8 G34 LN2 G10 K4 G10 Y/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | B #2C4084 | 0.07 |
| G | #285800 #285800 | G #006400 | 0.04 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Storrie (Name) — ΔT 0.68
- Wells (1970) (Name) — ΔT 0.73
- MacAvoy Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 6687. Earliest known date: 1975 The pattern was based on an existing weave about 30 year old which had been abandoned by the Macavoy clan. James Macavoy being the only member to wear a kilt of this design in the present day (2005). The origin and design of the original is obscure. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.81
- Dodd of Branford — ΔT 0.90
- State Seal of South Carolina (Fash) — ΔT 1.02
- Young — ΔT 1.03
- Yorkland — ΔT 1.04
- Scotland’s Golf Coast — ΔT 1.05
- Kleto, Susan (Personal) — ΔT 1.05
- Inkster (Name) — ΔT 1.07
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.
ID: /setts/s10/y6g10k4g10w2g34b8r2b44w4-b003c64-g285800-k101010-rc80000-we0e0e0-ye8c000/