MacBean Dress
In pattern GWRRGRRWGWBWBWKR.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 16 stripes 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)
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 #2C4084 | 0.23 |
| DR | #901C38 #901C38 | R #C80000 | 0.12 |
| 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 |
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 0.94
- MacLean of Duart 7 — ΔT 1.01
- Gayre Arisaidh Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 176. Earliest known date: pre 2003 Sindex notes that this sett is taken from an arisaidh. Although generally regarded as the usual modern form, it differs from the count registered with Lord Lyon. The Chief of the Gayres has declared that the Duthus of the clan is at Minard Castle, Loch Fyne, since oil related developments made the location at Tain unsuitable. Minard Castle contains a small museum of family history. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.01
- Fredericton (District) — ΔT 1.03
- MacLean of Duart (Reproduction Colours) — ΔT 1.04
- Kintyre — ΔT 1.07
- Fredericton #1 — ΔT 1.08
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/g20w8r8ra8g4ra8r8w8g20w8b8w4b8w46k4r4-b5c8ca8-g006818-k101010-rc80000-ra901c38-we0e0e0/