MacPherson Dress (1951)
Bands: WBWKWKY · Stripes: W P W K W K LY W P W K W K LY
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2714
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1842 — MacPherson Dress (1951) (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1842 — MacPherson Dress (1951) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2714
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5921
Thread count
LN/6 P6 LN60 K40 LN6 K18 Y/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| P | #940094 #940094 | B #2A418A | 0.20 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Rui (Personal) — ΔT 0.74
- MacPherson Dress, Blue (Dance) — ΔT 0.84
- MacPherson - 1842 (VS) Dress — ΔT 0.84
- Brodie (WCWM) — ΔT 0.97
- MacPherson #10 — ΔT 1.00
- Forbes - 1880 (Clans Originaux) — ΔT 1.00
- Forbes Dress (Clans Originaux) — ΔT 1.03
- Clemens and August (Personal) — ΔT 1.12
- Hannay (Clan) — ΔT 1.12
- Hannay — ΔT 1.14
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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