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
In pattern GBGKGK.
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=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 #2C4084 | 0.07 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 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 1.13
- MacCormick Hunting (Name) — ΔT 1.14
- Strathspey District Tartan Tartan Number: 1039. Earliest known date: 1795 From the back of a waistcoat of a Strathspey Fencible 1794-5. The design, which is a variation of the Black Watch may be attributed to General James Grant of Ballindalloch who raised the fencible unit and whose clan already used the the Black Watch as a hunting sett. The Strathspey tartan is now produced as a District tartan. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.23
- Campbell of Glenlyon Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 14. Earliest known date: pre 2003 MacKinlay strip. Sample in STS collection. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.23
- Graham of Montrose — ΔT 1.27
- MacKay (Bonner) — ΔT 1.28
- Graham of Menteith Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 698. Earliest known date: 1831 Logan describes the broad blue stripe as 'smalt', in his book, 'The Scottish Gael' published in 1831. Smibert also records this sett in 1850. However, in the text for McIan's Costume of the Clans (1845-47), Logan admits that this sett's antiquity is questionable. Menteith is the name given to the western branch of the Graham family. The Menteith District tartan is similar but the azure stripe is white. (See also Montrose, Menteith.) See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.30
- Blaylock Annandale (Name) — ΔT 1.32
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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