MacPherson of Pitmain

Bands: BRGRBRKRB · Stripes: DB R Y R DB R K R DB DB R Y R DB R K R DB

This was sourced from weddslist. It is a 9 band tartan.

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Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

Variants

Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.

Thread count

B/4 R4 K32 R4 B4 R4 N32 R4 B/4 Sett

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

ColourShadeBaseΔE (OKLab)
B#304080 #304080B #2A418A0.02
K#000000 #000000K #0000000.00
N#808080 #808080G #0061000.23
R#C00000 #C00000R #CC00000.03

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

  1. MacPherson Hunting — ΔT 0.33
  2. MacPherson Hunting — ΔT 0.51
  3. 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 — ΔT 0.91
  4. MacPherson Htg — ΔT 1.01
  5. MacPherson of Pitmain — ΔT 1.18
  6. Forbes — ΔT 1.25
  7. North Berwick Pipe Band (Dancing) — ΔT 1.27
  8. Aitken — ΔT 1.30
  9. Matthew Gloag — ΔT 1.31
  10. Gipsy — ΔT 1.31

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.

MacPherson HuntingMacPherson HuntingMacPherson 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, 2015MacPherson HtgMacPherson of PitmainForbesNorth Berwick Pipe Band (Dancing)AitkenMatthew GloagGipsy

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