MacLachlan (Chief's Dress) Blue
Bands: BYBYBYBY · Stripes: B LY B LY B LY B LY B LY B LY B LY B LY
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2586
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2586
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6272
Thread count
P/12 Y4 P42 Y4 P12 Y48 P4 Y/12

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| P | #6840FC #6840FC | B #2A418A | 0.20 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Erskine Blue (Dance) — ΔT 1.04
- Yorkshire, The Spirit of — ΔT 1.29
- Erskine Purple (Dance) Fashion Tartan Tartan Number: 6534. Earliest known date: 01/01/1980 A dancers' tartan now woven by D C Dalgliesh of Selkirk. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.36
- Jeux Canada Games '87 (Corporate) — ΔT 1.38
- Erskine Purple (Dance) — ΔT 1.45
- Buchanan Dress Blue (Dance) — ΔT 1.47
- Ailsa, Navy (Dance) — ΔT 1.52
- MacMugen — ΔT 1.61
- Erskine, Grey — ΔT 1.65
- Erskine Blanket — ΔT 1.67
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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