MacAlpine (1906)
In pattern BGBGKGBGBWKGKY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2275
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1906 — MacAlpine (1906) (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 1906 — MacAlpine (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
DB/16 G4 DB4 G24 K4 G24 DB4 G4 DB16 LN4 K16 G4 K16 Y/4

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #202060 #202060 | B #2C4084 | 0.11 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Gemmell Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 3213. Earliest known date: 2001 Design copyright is owned by Thomas Kempsill Gemmell and Davina Creighton Gemmell. Designed in traditional tartan colours. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.68
- Akins of Candler (Personal) — ΔT 0.81
- MacEwen/MacEwan — ΔT 0.89
- O'Conner Irish Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2217. Earliest known date: 1985 Designed by Jerry O'Connor of Keltic Klassics, Hillsdale, New Jersey who names it "Royal na Connaught" .Woven by House of Edgar who said they would call it O'Connor. Ref made to Lawrence & Gerald O'Connor - possibly customers of Macnaughtons of Pitlochry (part of same group as House of Edgar) See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.91
- Terre D'Ecosse — ΔT 0.91
- Polaris Military — ΔT 0.93
- Terre De'Ecosse — ΔT 0.94
- MacKenzie MINI Clan Miniature Tartan Tartan Number: 2677. Earliest known date: 1778 Generated for Dupion Silk Stock list for display purpose. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.95
- Stephenson Hunting Tartan Tartan Number: 770. Earliest known date: 1981 Based on an old and un-named sett in the records of Messrs Bolingbroke and Jones of Norwich, prior to 1870. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.95
- Mantle Tartan Tartan Number: 6945. Earliest known date: 2006 A combination of Sinclair Hunting and MacQueen tartans relating to the clan associations of the the two families, Swan and Sinclair. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.95
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.
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