MacPherson #5
In pattern RBRGYKBKBKBRWKR.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2706
Attestations
This cloth appears in 4 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1819 — MacPherson #5 (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1819 — MacPherson (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — Kidd Wilson's No 43 or.. Tartan Tartan Number: 1409. Earliest known date: 1819 This eventually became known as 'Clan MacPherson' See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — MacPherson (Caledonia) Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1410. Earliest known date: 1819 Also known as 'Caledonia' See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Thread count
R/36 B10 R36 G48 Y6 K38 B20 K6 B6 K6 B20 R36 LN8 K10 R/10
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | B #2C4084 | 0.23 |
| 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.
- Kidd — ΔT 0.27
- Caledonia - 1819 (Wilsons') No.155 — ΔT 0.54
- MacPherson #8 — ΔT 0.68
- MacPherson #6 — ΔT 0.69
- Wilson's No.109 — ΔT 0.71
- Kidd, Wilson's No 43 — ΔT 0.71
- 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 — ΔT 0.78
- Caledonia — ΔT 0.78
- Caledonia No 155 District Tartan Tartan Number: 1356. Earliest known date: 1819 Popular in the eighteenth century and appears in a number of guises. Romantic stories are told of its origin but in reality little is known. (G.Teall). J. Scarlett asserts that Wilson's No 155 has never been named, and that Miss Margaret MacDougall was in error when she included it in Robert Bain's 'Clans and Tartans of Scotland' (1953) as Caledonia. It is included here because of its obvious family resemblance to other Caledonia setts. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.78
- Christie Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1355. Earliest known date: 1930 Two woven samples in the Society's collection, were presented by Messrs Stewart Christie of Edinburgh. Very little else is known about the origin of the design. The alternative sample replaces blue with azure, but is otherwise identical. The name Christie in Scotland is thought to derive from the Norse word 'Trusty' meaning swordsman. (c.f. thrust). Christies are traditionally associated with the Clan Farquharson. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.84
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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