MacPherson Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1411. Earliest known date: 1886 James Grant took all of the seventy two tartans in his book from actual specimens in use at the time (1886). Grants version shows a slight reduction in the red ground showing the Victorian trend towards more compact setts. Worn by the Victoria Police pipe band (Australia). See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
In pattern RBRGYKBKBKBRWKR.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 15 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1411
Thread count
R/12 DB2 R12 G16 Y2 K12 DB8 K2 DB4 K2 DB8 R8 LN2 K2 R/2
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacPherson #6 — ΔT 0.16
- MacPherson #7 — ΔT 0.53
- MacPherson 9 — ΔT 0.68
- Norwich No.158 — ΔT 0.69
- Unidentified No 158 Silk Fragment — ΔT 0.70
- Caledonia - 1819 (Wilsons') No.155 — ΔT 0.70
- MacPherson #5 — ΔT 0.78
- MacPherson #8 — ΔT 0.80
- Kidd — ΔT 0.82
- Prince Albert — ΔT 0.88
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.
ID: /setts/s15/r12b2r12g16y2k12b8k2b4k2b8r8w2k2r2-b2c2c80-g006818-k101010-rc80000-we0e0e0-ye8c000/