MacLaren Dress
In pattern BWKGRGKY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2599
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1981 — MacLaren Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1981 — MacLaren Dress (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
DB/4 W24 K16 G16 R4 G16 K2 DY/4

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 |
| DY | #D09800 #D09800 | Y #E8C000 | 0.11 |
| G | #408060 #408060 | G #006400 | 0.13 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
| W | #F8F8F8 #F8F8F8 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.01 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacLaren Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 649. Earliest known date: 1981 This sett was approved by the Chief and accepted by the A.G.M. of the Clan MacLaren Society as Dress MacLaren in 1981. The sett has been designed by changing the blue ground of the usual MacLaren sett to white and then centering a blue stripe on the white ground. This illustration is based on a kilt belonging to the designer, Mr I.G.Campbell MacLaren. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.65
- MacLaren dress — ΔT 0.82
- Crofters (Corporate?) — ΔT 0.90
- Coulter Dress (Personal) — ΔT 0.97
- Crofters (Personal) — ΔT 0.98
- Gillies, Blue dress — ΔT 1.00
- MacRobart Dress (Personal) — ΔT 1.00
- Gillies, dress Green — ΔT 1.04
- Gillies Blue Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 934. Earliest known date: pre 2003 A name associated with Badenoch and the Hebrides. It means 'servant of Jesus'. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.04
- Gillies Dress Blue #1 (Dance) — ΔT 1.05
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/s8/b4w24k16g16r4g16k2y4-b2c2c80-g408060-k101010-rc80000-wf8f8f8-yd09800/