MacTavish Dress
Bands: RBKWKY · Stripes: R T K LB K LO R T K LB K LO
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2769
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1850 — MacTavish Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 2002 — MacTavish Dress (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2769
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1383
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1383
Thread count
DR/8 B56 K12 N24 K24 DY/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | B #2A418A | 0.23 |
| DR | #880000 #880000 | R #CC0000 | 0.15 |
| DY | #D09800 #D09800 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.12 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| N | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.17 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Thomson Dress (Blue) — ΔT 0.66
- Afternoon Tea / Earl Grey — ΔT 0.77
- MacTavish / Thom(p)son, dress — ΔT 0.83
- Clunie (Name) — ΔT 0.88
- Thomson Dress (Grey) (Fashion) — ΔT 0.88
- Afternoon Tea / Darjeeling — ΔT 0.91
- Wellington, No 229 — ΔT 0.93
- Tombow 140th Anniversary, The — ΔT 0.93
- Ritchie, Stephen James (Personal) — ΔT 0.96
- Commonwealth Games Council (Corp.) — ΔT 1.03
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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