Murtaugh
Bands: KRWKYKWBKBKWYYYWYYYKR · Stripes: K R W K LO K W DB K DB K W LO LY LO W LO LY LO K R K R W K LO K W DB K DB K W LO LY LO W LO LY LO K R
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 21 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3080
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 16/10/2001 — Murtaugh (register-of-tartans, record)
- Oct 2001 — Murtaugh (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3080
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4022
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2835
Thread count
K/4 R8 W4 K6 O6 K4 W4 DB48 K4 DB6 K8 W4 O4 Y4 O4 W4 O4 Y4 O8 K8 R/8

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| O | #D87C00 #D87C00 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| W | #F8F8F8 #F8F8F8 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.00 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Norwich No.014 — ΔT 1.06
- Royal Stewart, (Variant) — ΔT 1.15
- Royal Stuart/Stewart (Variant) — ΔT 1.21
- Hebridean Arisaid Red (Dance) — ΔT 1.23
- Anderson P — ΔT 1.24
- Aberdeen (Johnston and Smith) — ΔT 1.24
- Otago — ΔT 1.26
- Anderson (MacGregor-Hastie #3) — ΔT 1.26
- MacBeth Dress (Clan) — ΔT 1.27
- Cribb (2016) — ΔT 1.29
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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