In pattern RBKWKY.

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripes 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)

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.

Sample pattern

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. MacTavish Dress Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1383. Earliest known date: 1958 Designed for Lord Thomson of Fleet in 1958 based on a sample in the Moy Hall collection dating from the mid 19th century. Designed by John Bain & Alfred Bottomley of MacArthurs of Hamilton (now at Biggar 2002). Alfred was owner of MacArthurs and John was a director and one of the leading designers in Scotland. The design work on this and the Thomson Htg was for Lord Thomson of Fleet - via Kinloch Anderson of Edinburgh. The tartan is also suitable for MacTavishs and Thomsons, who claim descent from the Clan MacIntosh, regardless of spelling. John Bain 10 Oct 2002, remembers Lord Thomson visiting the mill to discuss the designs. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.41
2. Thomson Dress (Blue) — ΔT 0.66
3. Afternoon Tea / Earl Grey — ΔT 0.77
4. MacTavish / Thom(p)son, dress — ΔT 0.82
5. Clunie (Name) — ΔT 0.88
6. Thomson Dress (Grey) (Fashion) — ΔT 0.88
7. Afternoon Tea / Darjeeling — ΔT 0.90
8. Wellington, No 229 — ΔT 0.93
9. Tombow 140th Anniversary, The — ΔT 0.93
10. Ritchie, Stephen James (Personal) — ΔT 0.96

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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