MacRae, Dress Red (Dance)
Bands: BRKWRWKWKWB · Stripes: T R K W R W K W K W T T R K W R W K W K W T
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2755
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2755
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6529
Thread count
B/6 R18 K12 W6 R48 W6 K12 W54 K6 W18 B/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #2888C4 #2888C4 | B #2A418A | 0.21 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| W | #F8F8F8 #F8F8F8 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Orange Fanaticos — ΔT 1.21
- MacRae Dress Red Fancy Tartan Tartan Number: 6529. Earliest known date: 2000 A dance version of MacRae Dress. From a sample provided by Tartantown. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.24
- Casey, Dress (Corporate) — ΔT 1.24
- Virtuoso — ΔT 1.35
- 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 1.37
- MacKellar Cerise Dress Tartan Tartan Number: 8180. Earliest known date: Threadcount and colours aren't 100% original. Generated manually. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.37
- Duchess of Kent — ΔT 1.38
- Karibu — ΔT 1.39
- Cameron, Hose — ΔT 1.40
- Largs Dress District Tartan Tartan Number: 1838. Earliest known date: 1983 The Largs tartan is a new design created for the town and officially adopted in 1981. There is also a dress version. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.44
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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