MacPherson Dress (1951)
In pattern WBWKWKY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripes 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)
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 #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
| P | #940094 #940094 | B #2C4084 | 0.20 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
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
- MacPherson 8 — ΔT 0.93
- Brodie (WCWM) — ΔT 0.97
- Forbes - 1880 (Clans Originaux) — ΔT 1.00
- MacPherson #10 — ΔT 1.00
- Forbes Dress (Clans Originaux) — ΔT 1.02
- Clemens and August (Personal) — ΔT 1.12
- Hannay (Clan) — ΔT 1.12
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.
ID: /setts/s7/w6b6w60k40w6k18y6-b940094-k101010-we0e0e0-ye8c000/