MacPherson Blue/White Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1868. Earliest known date: 1980 There are a great number of variations of the Dress MacPherson, many of them modern trade designs which are popular with country dancers. Hugh Macpherson of Edinburgh, kiltmaker and tartan designer some decades ago, supplied samples of these to the Scottish Tartan Society around 1980. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
In pattern WRWBWBY.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 7 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1868
Thread count
LN/10 R6 LN52 DB42 LN6 DB16 Y/6
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 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacPherson Dress Blue (Dance) — ΔT 0.25
- MacPherson, Blue & White — ΔT 0.36
- Ailsa, Royal Blue (Dance) — ΔT 0.62
- MacPherson Dress, Royal Blue (Dance) — ΔT 0.62
- Jeux Canada Games '87 (Corporate) — ΔT 1.08
- MacPherson Dress Purple — ΔT 1.16
- Buchanan Dress Blue Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1672. Earliest known date: pre 2003 One of a number of dress tartans produced by Hugh Macpherson, a kiltmaker in Edinburgh, intended for dancing and other informal occassions. The 'dress' version of clan tartan is usually created by substituting white for one of the 'ground' colours. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.23
- MacPherson, dress (purple) — ΔT 1.23
- Ailsa, Navy (Dance) — ΔT 1.24
- MacPherson Dress (1951) — ΔT 1.26
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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