Mary, Queen of Scots
Bands: RWBGWYGBW · Stripes: R W DB G W LY G T W R W DB G W LY G T W
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2846
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1800 — Mary, Queen of Scots (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1800s — Mary, Queen of Scots (Artefact) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2846
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5969
Thread count
LN/2 B4 G4 Y2 LN2 G20 DB20 LN2 R/10

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | B #2A418A | 0.23 |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Dunedin (USA) — ΔT 0.45
- Dunedin (USA) (District) — ΔT 0.52
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society Commemorative Tartan Tartan Number: 2091. Earliest known date: 1991 Created by Kinloch Anderson of Edinburgh for the 150th Anniversary of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain which was held at Scone Palace, Perthshire in 1991. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.62
- Federated Women's Institutes of — ΔT 0.64
- Dunedin — ΔT 0.67
- Glasgow, City of Culture — ΔT 0.76
- Sullivan (Estimated threadcount) — ΔT 0.82
- Wojtek Memorial Trust — ΔT 0.84
- State Seal of Utah (Fashion) — ΔT 0.85
- Gordonstoun (Corporate) — ΔT 0.86
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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