MacKay Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 703. Earliest known date: 1816 Wilson's of Bannockburn (1819) record the same sett with blue changed to purple. Logan calls the colour 'corbeau' which is in fact a dark shade of green. The pattern shows a marked similarity to the Gunn tartan in all but colour, suggesting a territorial origin for both. Recently historians of Scottish dress have tended to stress the geographical sources, rather than the clan associations of the earliest Highland tartans. A sample was signed and sealed by the Chief for Highland Society of London in 1816. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
Bands: GBGKGK · Stripes: G DT G K G K G DT G K G K
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 6 band tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=703
Thread count
G/6 DB28 G4 K28 G28 K/6
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | B #2A418A | 0.08 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacKay - 1800 (Clan) — ΔT 1.11
- Scottish Airports — ΔT 1.13
- Scottish Airports (Corporate) — ΔT 1.14
- MacCormick Hunting (Name) — ΔT 1.16
- Graham of Montrose — ΔT 1.28
- MacKay (Bonner) — ΔT 1.29
- Blaylock Annandale (Name) — ΔT 1.33
- Graham of Menteith (Clan) — ΔT 1.33
- MacCallum — ΔT 1.33
- Ferguson of Balquhidder #3 — ΔT 1.34
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/g3dt14g2k14g14k3~x2/