Malcolm
Bands: BKGKBRBRBKGKYK · Stripes: B K G K DB R DB R DB K G K LY K B K G K DB R DB R DB K G K LY K
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2791
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: 2791
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5696
Thread count
B/4 K4 G24 K24 DB24 R4 DB4 R4 DB24 K24 G24 K4 Y4 K/4
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #2474E8 #2474E8 | B #2A418A | 0.19 |
| 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 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Malcolm #2 — ΔT 0.53
- Cunningham Hunting — ΔT 0.63
- Elgin-Landshut — ΔT 0.67
- Kinloch Anderson Hunting — ΔT 0.75
- Malcolm (symmetrical) — ΔT 0.88
- Unidentified fragment — ΔT 0.89
- MacKenzie Morgan — ΔT 0.90
- 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 0.94
- Nance (1998) — ΔT 0.94
- MacInnes — ΔT 0.96
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/s14/b1k1g6k6db6r1db1r1db6k6g6k1ly1k1~x4/