MacPhail (Blue Bands)
Bands: KBGRBR · Stripes: K T G R B R K T G R B R
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2696
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/2002 — MacPhail (Blue Bands) (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 2002 — MacPhail (Blue bands) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2696
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1028
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1028
Thread count
K/8 Ba2 G48 R12 B16 R/80
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #1474B4 #1474B4 | B #2A418A | 0.15 |
| Ba | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | B #2A418A | 0.23 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacPhail — ΔT 0.82
- Sinclair — ΔT 1.01
- MacGleish Formal (Personal) — ΔT 1.13
- MacLeay — ΔT 1.18
- MacLeay (Clan) — ΔT 1.21
- MacPhail — ΔT 1.25
- Shaw of Tordarroch — ΔT 1.25
- Shaw Red of Tordarroch Dress (Clan 2 — ΔT 1.27
- Livingstone MacLay MacLeay — ΔT 1.27
- MacGleish Formal (Personal) — ΔT 1.31
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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