Merrilees
In pattern RKRWBW.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2938
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1829 — Merrilees (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1829 — Meg Merrilees, Old (1828) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
R/20 K70 R10 W12 B12 W/46
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 #2C4084 | 0.23 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
| W | #F8F8F8 #F8F8F8 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.01 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- 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 0.41
- Merrilees Dress (Dance) — ΔT 0.44
- Thompson Grey Dress — ΔT 0.79
- 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 0.83
- Fraser Dress — ΔT 0.85
- Thom(p)son camel — ΔT 0.89
- Thom(p)son, Grey — ΔT 0.89
- Thompson Camel Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 2421. Earliest known date: 1967 Designed by Scotty Thompson. It it a simple colour variation on the usual blue Thompson, but is often confused with the Burberry Check. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.90
- Common Ground (Dress) — ΔT 0.91
- Thomson Camel — 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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