MacFarlane Dress

Bands: BWRKBGBRBRWGRWR · Stripes: DB W R K DB DG DB R DB R W DG R W R DB W R K DB DG DB R DB R W DG R W R

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 band tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2433

Attestations

This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.

• 01/01/1930 — MacFarlane Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
• 1930 — MacFarlane Dress (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

• Scottish Register of Tartans: 2433
• Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 659
• Scottish Tartans World Register: 659

Thread count

DB/8 W4 R12 K2 DB24 DG8 DB4 R12 DB2 R12 W4 DG16 R4 W32 R/8

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. MacFarlane Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 659. Earliest known date: 1930-40 MacKinlay was a collector of tartans from the period between the wars. He drew out the patterns on strips of paper defining the warp with colouring pencils. Originally listed as MacFadzean MacPhedran. Threadcount corrected in 2005. The B2 in the red was restored. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.50
2. Carnegie #2 — ΔT 0.59
3. MacDuff Dress #4 — ΔT 0.98
4. Uganda — ΔT 1.02
5. Unidentified #11 — ΔT 1.07
6. Saint John New Brunswick — ΔT 1.09
7. MacDuff, dress — ΔT 1.14
8. MacDonald Dress (Irish) — ΔT 1.18
9. Cameron of Erracht Dress — ΔT 1.19
10. Hebridean Arisaid Red (Dance) — ΔT 1.21

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.

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