MacDuff Dress #4
Bands: RKRGKBWRWKR · Stripes: R K R DG K DB W R W K R R K R DG K DB W R W K R
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2422
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2422
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1597
Thread count
R/4 K4 LN45 R6 LN10 DB16 K16 G22 R14 K6 R/16

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #080848 #080848 | B #2A418A | 0.20 |
| 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.
- MacDuff, dress — ΔT 0.40
- MacDuff, dress — ΔT 0.70
- Unidentified #11 — ΔT 0.84
- MacDuff Dress #2 — ΔT 0.90
- Cameron of Erracht Dress — ΔT 0.91
- Stirling, Bannockburn dress — ΔT 0.92
- Carnegie #2 — ΔT 0.98
- MacFarlane Dress — ΔT 0.98
- MacFarlane Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 659. Earliest known date: 1930-40 MacKinlay was a collector of tartans from the period between the wars. He drew out the patterns on strips of paper defining the warp with colouring pencils. Originally listed as MacFadzean MacPhedran. Threadcount corrected in 2005. The B2 in the red was restored. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.01
- Gillies, dress Red — ΔT 1.05
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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