Mar (Tribe of..) District Tartan Tartan Number: 1586. Earliest known date: 1978 There is much debate over the true representation of the Mar District tartan. In order that the matter should be settled and the design be "known and recognised as the proper tartan of the Tribe of Mar", the Rt Hon Margaret of Mar, Countess of Mar, made a petition to the Lord Lyon to record this sett. The designer is unknown and the date is possibly pre 1850. Frank Adam called the sett Skene, and said it came from the Duke of Fife whose ancestors owned Mar Lodge. Both Skenes and Robertsons lived in the Mar district in the north east of Scotland. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
In pattern RKGKY.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 5 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1586
Thread count
R/2 K4 G45 K3 Y/2
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Mar, Tribe of (Clan) — ΔT 0.16
- Mar Tribe — ΔT 0.27
- Braemar Royal Highland Gathering — ΔT 1.21
- Loch Laggan District Tartan Tartan Number: 796. Earliest known date: pre 1820 Loch Laggan lies on the historic route between Lochaber and the Great Glen and the Central Highlands of Badenoch at the head of Glen Spean. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.31
- Crane of Cluny (Personal) — ΔT 1.47
- Loch Laggan — ΔT 1.53
- Mar, (Tribe of..) — ΔT 1.64
- Skene or Tribe of Mar — ΔT 1.65
- Asher (Personal) — ΔT 1.68
- Highland Hospice (Fashion) — ΔT 1.74
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/s5/r2k4g45k3y2-g006818-k101010-rc80000-ye8c000/