Metcalf (Clan)
In pattern BRGRWBWBWKWKWBWBWGR.
This was sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 19 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/3471/
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- pre 2002 — Metcalf (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — Metcalf (register-of-tartans, record)
Thread count
DB/4 DR10 G6 DR32 N10 DB4 N4 DB6 N18 K14 N10 K14 N18 DB6 N4 DB4 N10 G36 DR/88

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | B #2C4084 | 0.07 |
| DR | #880000 #880000 | R #C80000 | 0.14 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| N | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.16 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacDougall Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1776. Earliest known date: 1977 Matched to a sample by B Urquhart in 2004, from Lochcarron reiver cloth. The purple colour was lightened considerably to a pale mauve, giving an almost equal prominence to the white. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.77
- MacDougall (Paton) — ΔT 0.84
- MacColl Hunting — ΔT 1.10
- Brown-Wells (Personal) — ΔT 1.10
- MacDougall 7 — ΔT 1.10
- Nike Golf Dark (Corporate) — ΔT 1.11
- Read Dress, Peter (Personal) — ΔT 1.11
- MacDougall — ΔT 1.11
- Stewart of Ardshiel — ΔT 1.15
- Wilson, Janet (1780 Original) — ΔT 1.16
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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