MacPherson Dress Green (Dance)
In pattern WRWGWGY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2718
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1980 — MacPherson Dress Green (Dance) (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1980 — MacPherson Dress, Green (Dance) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — MacPherson Dress Green Tartan Tartan Number: 1870. Earliest known date: c.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 (house-of-tartan, record)
Thread count
LN/10 R6 LN52 G40 LN6 G16 Y/6
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| 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 green — ΔT 0.50
- MacPherson Dress Blue (Dance) #2 — ΔT 0.92
- MacDiarmid, dress — ΔT 0.92
- MacDiarmid Dress — ΔT 0.99
- MacDiarmid Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1486. Earliest known date: c.1830 This sett appears in Paton's collection which is housed at the Scottish Tartans Museum, Comrie in Perthshire, Scotland. The samples are undated but the collection is known to have been put together around the 1830's, with some additions during the Victorian period. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.99
- Uist, Green (Dance) — ΔT 1.23
- Fraser Yellow #2 — ΔT 1.24
- Tilburg Hunting (District) — ΔT 1.36
- O'Neill — ΔT 1.37
- Fraser, Yellow — ΔT 1.42
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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