MacLaren Dress
In pattern BWKGRGKY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe 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)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2599
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 649
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 649
Thread count
DY/4 K2 G16 R4 G16 K16 W24 DB/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 #2A418A | 0.06 |
| DY | #D09800 #D09800 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.12 |
| G | #408060 #408060 | G #006100 | 0.14 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| W | #F8F8F8 #F8F8F8 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.00 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacLaren dress — ΔT 0.81
- Coulter Dress (Personal) — ΔT 0.98
- Crofters (Personal) — ΔT 0.99
- Gillies, Blue dress — ΔT 1.00
- MacRobart Dress (Personal) — ΔT 1.01
- Gillies, dress Green — ΔT 1.04
- Gillies Dress Blue #1 (Dance) — ΔT 1.06
- Carmen Lau (Hong Kong) (Personal) — ΔT 1.09
- Barbour -Modern — ΔT 1.09
- Gillies, dress Blue — ΔT 1.09
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14299 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/db2w12k8g8r2g8k1lo2~x2/