Bands: BKBKBR · Stripes: N K N K N R N K N K N R

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 band tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2497

Attestations

This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.

• 01/01/1842 — Mackay (Blue) (register-of-tartans, record)
• 1842 — MacKay -1842 (VS) (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

• Scottish Register of Tartans: 2497
• Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 264
• Scottish Tartans World Register: 264

Variants

Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.

• Norsemen, The

Thread count

N/8 K24 N8 K24 N64 R/8

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

Sample pattern

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. Perthshire (New) District Tartan Tartan Number: 2188. Earliest known date: 1992 The New Perthshire District tartan has established itself through use and wont since 1992. It provides a useful alternative to the Drummond pattern which was always closely associated with Perthshire. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.97
2. Pride of the Forth — ΔT 1.06
3. Pride of the Forth — ΔT 1.13
4. Scottish National Party (Corporate) — ΔT 1.20
5. Connaught Green — ΔT 1.23
6. Press & Journal — ΔT 1.25
7. Slanj, Grey (Corporate) — ΔT 1.28
8. Tartan Army Children's Charity (Corp — ΔT 1.29
9. Dege, of Saville Row — ΔT 1.29
10. Grey Spirit (Fashion) — ΔT 1.30

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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