MacAlister of Glenbarr
Bands: GRGRGRBRGRBRBR · Stripes: G R G R G R DP R G R DP R DP R G R G R G R DP R G R DP R DP R
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2269
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1989 — MacAlister of Glenbarr (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 1989 — MacAlister of Glenbarr (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2269
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 877
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 877
Thread count
G/40 R6 G12 R12 G12 R16 DP4 R4 G40 R4 DP4 R92 DP6 R/16

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DP | #440044 #440044 | B #2A418A | 0.18 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacGillivray — ΔT 0.72
- Hebrides Outer — ΔT 0.93
- Grant of Rothiemurchus — ΔT 1.00
- Drummond #3 — ΔT 1.00
- MacDonald 1 — ΔT 1.04
- MacDonell of Glengarry #4 — ΔT 1.05
- MacGillivray #3 — ΔT 1.09
- Ross 5 — ΔT 1.12
- Drummond VS — ΔT 1.12
- MacColl — 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.
ID: /setts/s14/g20r3g6r6g6r8dp2r2g20r2dp2r46dp3r8~x2/