MacPherson Hunting Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 547. Earliest known date: 1850 This version also appears in Grants 'Tartans of the Clans of Scotland' (1886). D.W.Stewart said (in 1893) "it was the earliest known to have been worn by the clan, and is reputed to have been worn in two forms; as a clan tartan with a white ground and as a hunting tartan with a grey ground". It appeared first in Smiths work of 1850, 'Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland'. Originally recorded in the Urquhart Register as MacPherson of Pitmain. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
In pattern BRKRBRRRB.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 9 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=547
Thread count
DB/4 R4 K32 R4 DB4 R4 N32 R4 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 #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| N | #888888 #888888 | R #C80000 | 0.24 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacPherson Htg — ΔT 0.22
- Roxburgh Red District Tartan Tartan Number: 140. Earliest known date: 1875 Roxburgh is in the heart of the Borders region of Scotland. The pattern was taken from a silk in Patterson's sample book (c.1875) now stored in the Scottish Tartan Society's archives. The tartan may have been in production before 1850, and is now woven commercially for the first time in perhaps a century and a half. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.73
- Roxburgh Red — ΔT 0.80
- Roxburgh, Red — ΔT 0.81
- MacPherson of Pitmain — ΔT 0.90
- Famous Grouse, The — ΔT 0.95
- Central Newcastle School — ΔT 1.04
- MacPherson Hunting — ΔT 1.11
- MacPherson Hunting — ΔT 1.12
- Children 1st (Corporate) — ΔT 1.16
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.
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