MacDonald
Bands: BRBRBRKGRGRG · Stripes: DB R DB R DB R K G R G R G DB R DB R DB R K G R G R G
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2334
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1819 — MacDonald (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1819 — MacDonald - 1800 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2334
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 419
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 419
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
- MacDonald 2
- MacDonald 3
- MacDonald 4
- MacDonald 5
- MacDonald 7
- MacDonald 8
- MacDonald MINI Design Tartan Tartan Number: 4199. Earliest known date: Dupion Silk. Display Purposes Only. Reduced Copy of 419 MacDonald. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
Thread count
DB/34 R4 DB4 R10 DB58 R4 K62 G58 R10 G4 R4 G/34
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacDonald #5 — ΔT 0.45
- MacDonald #4 — ΔT 0.52
- MacDonald #3 — ΔT 0.52
- Campbell of Breadalbane #2 — ΔT 0.70
- Gordon #2 — ΔT 0.71
- Campbell of Breadalbane (Military) — ΔT 0.75
- Scottish Tourist Board (1981) (Corp) — ΔT 0.82
- Black from Cumnock (Personal) — ΔT 0.84
- Graham — ΔT 0.87
- Stewart of Appin (Clan) — ΔT 0.90
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.
ID: /setts/s12/db17r2db2r5db29r2k31g29r5g2r2g17~x2/