MacTavish Thomson Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 228. Earliest known date: 1906 D.C. Stewart writes, " This tartan has recently (1950) come into use as being that appropriate to the Thomsons; Thomson is the anglicised form of the name MacTavish. It is not recorded in any of the early illustrated books. Many MacTavishes wear the Campbell of Argyll." Stewart may not have considered Johnston's publication in 1906 as 'early' and this may have been the source for the sett he recorded in the 'Setts of the Scottish Tartans' in 1950. Some versions show black in place of the mid blue stripe in this illustration. There is also the personal tartan of Lord Thomson of Fleet and a sett recorded in the 'Baronage of Angus and Mearns'. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
In pattern BKBBRB.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 6 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=228
Thread count
B/2 K12 B12 DB4 R24 B/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 |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Thompson/Thomson/MacTavish — ΔT 0.17
- Ruthven (V.S.) — ΔT 0.62
- Ruthven (V.S.) (Name) — ΔT 0.69
- James of Glencarr (Personal) — ΔT 0.71
- Henkel (Corporate) — ΔT 0.76
- Graham of Menteith (Red) — ΔT 0.86
- Thompson/Thomson/MacTavish #2 — ΔT 0.94
- United Distillers — ΔT 0.99
- MacBean/MacElvain — ΔT 1.03
- Geddes — ΔT 1.03
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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