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
In pattern RKRWBW.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 6 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1602
Thread count
LN/46 DB12 LN12 R10 K70 R/20
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Merrilees — ΔT 0.41
- Meg, Merrilees — ΔT 0.64
- Thom(p)son camel — ΔT 0.71
- Thom(p)son, Grey — ΔT 0.73
- Thompson Grey Dress — ΔT 0.79
- Wcwm 759-3 — ΔT 0.81
- Merrilees Dress (Dance) — ΔT 0.82
- 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 0.86
- Common Ground (Dress) — ΔT 0.86
- Thompson Navy Trade Tartan Tartan Number: 1443. Earliest known date: Oregon Possibly designed by Councillor John Hannay himself. No other information is available. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.95
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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