Merwe
Bands: GYKGRW · Stripes: G LY K G R W G LY K G R W
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2940
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: 2940
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6215
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2740
Thread count
G/30 Y4 K60 G64 R6 W/4

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 #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacArthur (Variant) — ΔT 1.02
- Asheville Firefighters, The — ΔT 1.05
- Vipont (Yellow line) — ΔT 1.06
- Moran Family Tartan Tartan Number: 675. Earliest known date: 1986 The designers requested that the threadcount be Restricted. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.13
- Arkansas — ΔT 1.14
- O'Donoghue — ΔT 1.16
- Carrick Hunting District Tartan Tartan Number: 721. Earliest known date: 1930 This sample comes from the MacGregor-Hastie collection which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. Some of the samples, including this one, were unmarked. One can assume that the sample dates between 1930 and 1950. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.20
- Henderson/MacKendrick — ΔT 1.21
- MacKendrick — ΔT 1.21
- Wcwm 1255 — ΔT 1.24
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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