McCarthy, Old
Bands: BRBGY · Stripes: DB R DB DG LY DB R DB DG LY
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 5 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2874
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/2000 — McCarthy, Old (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 2000 — McCarthy, Old (Clan?) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2874
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4049
Thread count
DB/14 DR52 DB14 DG48 Y/4
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #202060 #202060 | B #2A418A | 0.11 |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | G #006100 | 0.15 |
| DR | #880000 #880000 | R #CC0000 | 0.15 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Ferguson Britt (Corporate) — ΔT 0.94
- Strathspey (Fashion) — ΔT 1.05
- Canadian Autumn — ΔT 1.15
- Edinburgh International Conference Centre, The — ΔT 1.17
- Andover (Fashion) — ΔT 1.21
- Unamed Riding cloak 1745 — ΔT 1.22
- Vass (Personal) — ΔT 1.23
- (2) Cook — ΔT 1.26
- Loch Long One Design — ΔT 1.26
- Eachaidh (Personal) — ΔT 1.27
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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