MacKay
Bands: GBGKGK · Stripes: DG DB DG K DG K DG DB DG K DG K
This was sourced from weddslist. It is a 6 band tartan.
Original link http://www.weddslist.com/cgi-bin/tartans/pg.pl?source=rb
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2540
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2625
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2666
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3555
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3808
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1429
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 218
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1010
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1429
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1585
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 218
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 864
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
G/3 DB14 G2 K14 G14 K/3

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #000064 #000064 | B #2A418A | 0.18 |
| G | #004C00 #004C00 | G #006100 | 0.07 |
| K | #000000 #000000 | K #000000 | 0.00 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacKay — ΔT 0.48
- Black Watch (smallest sett) — ΔT 0.56
- MacCallum — ΔT 1.04
- Fletcher — ΔT 1.09
- Morrison — ΔT 1.09
- Morrison — ΔT 1.11
- Austin — ΔT 1.14
- Fletcher — ΔT 1.21
- MacCallum — ΔT 1.25
- Unnamed, No 54 — ΔT 1.26
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.
ID: /setts/s6/dg3db14dg2k14dg14k3/