Madder
Bands: BRGRBRG · Stripes: DP R DG R DP R DG DP R DG R DP R DG
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2778
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2778
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5693
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
DG/56 DR8 DP54 DR54 DG56 DR10 DP/4

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DG | #044028 #044028 | G #006100 | 0.13 |
| DP | #280034 #280034 | B #2A418A | 0.22 |
| DR | #780014 #780014 | R #CC0000 | 0.19 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Aisteach — ΔT 1.29
- Lindsay (Chisholm Red) — ΔT 1.50
- Perthshire Tourist Board — ΔT 1.53
- Lindsay — ΔT 1.55
- Dempster Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2219. Earliest known date: 2001 Designed by Claire Donaldson of the House of Edgar. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.58
- Harmony 6 — ΔT 1.59
- Lindsay — ΔT 1.66
- Lindsay — ΔT 1.66
- Wasko (Personal) — ΔT 1.67
- Ferguson Britt (Corporate) — ΔT 1.70
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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