McFadden (Personal)
Bands: BBBKGKGY · Stripes: DB DP DB K G K G LO DB DP DB K G K G LO
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2881
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/09/1999 — McFadden (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
- March 2000 — McFadden (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2881
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2656
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2656
Thread count
DB/36 P4 DB32 K26 G6 K4 G84 DY/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | B #2A418A | 0.14 |
| DY | #D09800 #D09800 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.12 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| P | #6C0070 #6C0070 | B #2A418A | 0.16 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Wishart Htg (Clan) — ΔT 0.79
- Sinclair Hunting (VS) — ΔT 0.87
- Dollar Academy (1999) (Corporate) — ΔT 0.91
- West Lothian — ΔT 0.95
- Ferguson of Atholl Clan — ΔT 0.96
- Laurie Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 3201. Earliest known date: 2000 One of a set of three similar designs for Laurie, Lawrie and Lowry, designed by Peter MacDonald for Iain Laurie. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.00
- Fraser Gathering, Green (1997) — ΔT 1.03
- Weisfeld (Name) — ΔT 1.04
- Scotland’s Golf Coast — ΔT 1.04
- Alexander — ΔT 1.06
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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