MacPherson Dress Blue (Dance)
Bands: WKWBWBY · Stripes: W K W DB W DB LY W K W DB W DB LY
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2715
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1980 — MacPherson Dress Blue (Dance) (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1980 — MacPherson Dress, Royal Blue (Dance) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2715
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1868
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1868
Thread count
LN/10 K6 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 #2A418A | 0.06 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacPherson, Blue & White — ΔT 0.51
- Ailsa, Royal Blue (Dance) — ΔT 0.54
- Ailsa, Navy (Dance) — ΔT 1.17
- Jeux Canada Games '87 (Corporate) — ΔT 1.19
- Kile (No red line) (Personal) — ΔT 1.20
- MacPherson Dress (1951) — ΔT 1.26
- Clemens and August (Personal) — ΔT 1.27
- Yorkshire, The Spirit of — ΔT 1.28
- Buchanan Dress Blue (Dance) — ΔT 1.32
- Conquergood — ΔT 1.33
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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