MacLachlan
Bands: RKRKBGBKRKRKR · Stripes: R K R K DB DG DB K R K R K R R K R K DB DG DB K R K R K R
This was sourced from weddslist. It is a 13 band tartan.
Original link http://www.weddslist.com/cgi-bin/tartans/pg.pl?source=rb
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2540
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2625
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2666
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3555
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3808
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1429
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 218
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1010
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1429
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1585
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 218
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 864
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
R/2 K2 R16 K16 DB16 G3 DB16 K16 R2 K2 R2 K2 R/16

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #000064 #000064 | B #2A418A | 0.18 |
| G | #004C00 #004C00 | G #006100 | 0.07 |
| K | #000000 #000000 | K #000000 | 0.00 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacLachlan 1 — ΔT 0.91
- Gipsy — ΔT 1.00
- North Berwick Pipe Band (Dancing) — ΔT 1.04
- Gipsy (Fashion) — ΔT 1.07
- Aitken — ΔT 1.13
- Gipsy — ΔT 1.28
- MacLachlan #2 — ΔT 1.29
- MacLachlan — ΔT 1.30
- Clan Pipers Frankfurt and District Pipe Band — ΔT 1.30
- MacLachlan — ΔT 1.31
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/s13/r16k2r2k2r2k16db16dg3db16k16r16k2r2/