McBeams Boy
In pattern BBBYBYBYBWBRBRBR.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 16 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2870
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/08/2003 — McBeams Boy (register-of-tartans, record)
- August 2003 — McBeams Boy (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
B/38 DB8 B38 LT10 B4 LT38 B4 LT10 B38 LN4 B38 R10 B4 R38 B4 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 |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
| LT | #A08858 #A08858 | Y #E8C000 | 0.21 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Frater (Name) — ΔT 1.21
- Frater — ΔT 1.26
- Balmoral (Lavender) (Royal) — ΔT 1.41
- Fraser, hunting — ΔT 1.41
- Hebridean Granite — ΔT 1.51
- Qatar Airways — ΔT 1.53
- Kildare, County — ΔT 1.62
- Miyuki #3 — ΔT 1.63
- Shedor (2013) — ΔT 1.64
- Fraser hunting — ΔT 1.70
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/s16/b38ba8b38y10b4y38b4y10b38w4b38r10b4r38b4r10-b5c8ca8-ba2c2c80-rc80000-we0e0e0-ya08858/