MacKellar Dress Red
Bands: GWRKRWRBRWR · Stripes: DG W R K R W R P R W R DG W R K R W R P R W R
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2518
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/2002 — MacKellar Dress Red (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 2002 — MacKellar Dress, Red (Dance) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2518
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6563
Thread count
DG/6 LN52 LR4 K26 R10 LN4 R6 P8 R6 LN4 R/54

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DG | #003820 #003820 | G #006100 | 0.15 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| LR | #E87878 #E87878 | R #CC0000 | 0.19 |
| P | #9058D8 #9058D8 | B #2A418A | 0.21 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacKellar Dress Red Fashion Tartan Tartan Number: 6563. Earliest known date: 01/01/2002 The Mackellar Dress sett was originally designed by AA Bottomley of Peter MacArthur's. The colours of this version have been changed (presumably by DC Dalgliesh of Selkirk) to produce a Dancers' tartan./Threadcount and colours aren't 100% original. Generated manually./ See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.90
- Kyle, Pink (Dance) — ΔT 0.98
- Crieff Red Dress (Dance) — ΔT 1.00
- MacLean of Duart Dress #2 — ΔT 1.01
- Etive, Burgundy (Dance) — ΔT 1.08
- Stewart - Pr Ch Ed (Royal) — ΔT 1.08
- Praetorian (Fashion) — ΔT 1.12
- Unidentified Lindley #4 — ΔT 1.13
- MacLean of Duart Dress #3 — ΔT 1.14
- Clan MacLeod Societies of Canada — ΔT 1.14
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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