MacBean Dress
Bands: GWRRGRRWGWBWBWKR · Stripes: G W R R G R R W G W T W T W K R G W R R G R R W G W T W T W K R
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 16 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2292
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1972 — MacBean Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
- after 1972 — MacBean Dress (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — MacBean Dress (Clan) Clan/Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2415. Earliest known date: after 1972 Sample from the MacBean Clan Society of North America. The design is almost identical to James Scarlett's Meta MacBean 1220. with the addition of black guards and the replacing with red, of a black line on alternate white bands. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2292
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2415
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2415
Thread count
G/20 LN8 R8 DR8 G4 DR8 R8 LN8 G20 LN8 B8 LN4 B8 LN46 K4 R/4
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 #2A418A | 0.23 |
| DR | #901C38 #901C38 | R #CC0000 | 0.13 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacBean dress — ΔT 0.18
- Gayre Arisaidh — ΔT 0.94
- Gayre, Arisaidh — ΔT 0.94
- Highlands of Haliburton Dress (Dist. — ΔT 0.95
- MacLean of Duart 7 — ΔT 1.01
- Fredericton (District) — ΔT 1.03
- MacLean of Duart (Reproduction Colours) — ΔT 1.04
- Kintyre — ΔT 1.08
- Fredericton #1 — ΔT 1.08
- Fredericton District Tartan Tartan Number: 96. Earliest known date: 1967 Fredericton, capital city of New Brunswick, takes its name from Prince Frederick, the second son of King George III. The tartan was designed and woven by the Loomcrofters of Frederickton who weave in their own homes on their own looms. (From 'District Tartans', G. Teall and P. Smith, 1992) See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.10
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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