MacDowall

Bands: WGBKBKWKWKWY · Stripes: W G N K N K W K W K W LY W G N K N K W K W K W LY

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 band tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2410

Attestations

This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.

• 01/01/2007 — MacDowall (register-of-tartans, record)
• Nov. 2007 — MacDowall (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
• undated — MacDowall Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 7260. Earliest known date: 2007 There had been no previous tartan for the senior branch of the ancient Lords of Galloway . This was designed by MacDowall of Garthland* in conjunction with Gordon Kirkbright of Fraser & Kirkbright, weavers of Vancouver B.C. The design is a much modified Hunting Stewart of Galloway incorporating the Macdowall of Galloway livery colours. Prof. Fergus Day Hort Macdowall of that Ilk, Garthland and Castlesemple, Chief of the MacDowalls. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

• Scottish Register of Tartans: 2410
• Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7260

Thread count

LN/6 G28 N6 K14 N96 K14 LN6 K6 LN6 K6 LN24 Y/6

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. Holiday Inn Crown Plaza — ΔT 0.98
2. MacKellar Dress, Green (Dance) — ΔT 1.01
3. Wiseman, Robert (Corporate) — ΔT 1.06
4. Dinwiddie — ΔT 1.06
5. Penman Grey (Personal) — ΔT 1.09
6. Cameron Boyle, The (Personal) — ΔT 1.09
7. Dinwiddie — ΔT 1.10
8. Oromocto — ΔT 1.11
9. Ross Hunting Dress — ΔT 1.12
10. Glenorchy #2 — ΔT 1.12

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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