MacPherson Dress Burgundy (Dance)
In pattern WKWRWRY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2717
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1980 — MacPherson Dress Burgundy (Dance) (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1980 — MacPherson Dress, Burgundy (Dance) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
LN/8 K4 LN50 DR42 LN6 DR16 Y/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR | #880000 #880000 | R #C80000 | 0.14 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacPherson, Burgundy dress — ΔT 0.63
- MacPherson Dress Burgandy Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1832. Earliest known date: pre 2003 Examined by D.C.S. 1947 See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.81
- Torridon, Burgundy (Dance) — ΔT 0.84
- Arduaine, Red (Dance) — ΔT 0.85
- MacPherson, dress red — ΔT 0.89
- Cunningham Dress Burgundy (Dance) — ΔT 0.95
- Cunningham, dress — ΔT 0.98
- Lennox, dress — ΔT 1.02
- MacPherson, Red — ΔT 1.03
- Cunningham Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 563. Earliest known date: c.1980 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 1.06
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/w8k4w50r42w6r16y6-k101010-r880000-we0e0e0-ye8c000/