In pattern RKWKRR.

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

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4111

Attestations

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

• 01/01/1984 — Thompson Grey Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
• pre 1986 — Thompson, Grey Dress (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)

Thread count

DR/8 K24 LN24 K8 N48 DR/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. MacKintosh Dress (Scott Adie) — ΔT 0.62
2. Fraser Dress — ΔT 0.69
3. MacIntosh Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 538. Earliest known date: pre 2003 From an old pattern book in possesion of Messrs Scott Adie of London. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.78
4. Meg Merrilees Fancy Tartan Tartan Number: 1602. Earliest known date: 1831 Miss McDougall, Inverness library, says in her notes:The first mention I had of this tartan was in an advertisment by D MacDougall, Draper, 27 High St., Inverness in 1831 . . . Meg Merrilees and other winter shawls. From Dalgety Archives. STS notes that it was sold by Forsyth's in Glasgow in 1840. Meg Merrilees was a character in one of Scotts novels, Guy Mannering. BU See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.79
5. Merrilees — ΔT 0.79
6. Thompson Grey Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1611. Earliest known date: pre 2003 Designed for Lord Thomson of Fleet in 1958 based on a sample in the Moy Hall collection dating from the mid 19th century. The tartan is also suitable for MacTavishs and Thompsons, who claim descent from the Clan MacIntosh. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.82
7. Fraser Red Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1427. Earliest known date: pre 2003 A sample of this tartan was recorded by the Scottish Tartans Society during the period 1970 to 1990. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.87
8. Un-named (D C Dalgliesh) #3 — ΔT 0.91
9. Merrilees Dress (Dance) — ΔT 0.94
10. Fraser, dress — ΔT 0.97

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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