MacLellan/McLellan Dress (Personal)
In pattern KWBKRWRWKGWGY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2623
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/2002 — MacLellan/McLellan Dress (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 2002 — MacLellan Dress (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
K/8 LN4 DB28 K16 R4 LN32 R8 LN32 K4 G28 LN4 G28 Y/8

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 #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| G | #285800 #285800 | G #006400 | 0.04 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacLellan, dress McLellan — ΔT 0.59
- MacPherson, dress — ΔT 0.66
- MacPherson Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1615. Earliest known date: pre 2003 There are a great number of variations of the Dress MacPherson, many of them modern trade designs which are popular with country dancers. Hugh Macpherson of Edinburgh, kiltmaker and tartan designer some decades ago, supplied samples of these to the Scottish Tartan Society around 1980. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.75
- MacPherson Dress — ΔT 0.76
- MacInnes Hunting Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1614. Earliest known date: pre 2003 Could also be Dress Red MacPherson See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.88
- MacInnes Ancient Htg (Clan?) — ΔT 0.88
- Stewart, Variant — ΔT 0.89
- MacLellan Dress (Personal) — ΔT 0.90
- MacInnes, Ancient hunting — ΔT 0.91
- Stuart/Stewart variant — ΔT 0.92
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 15726 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/s13/k8w4b28k16r4w32r8w32k4g28w4g28y8-b2c2c80-g285800-k101010-rc80000-we0e0e0-ye8c000/