MacDiarmid Dress
Bands: RGKWKGWRW · Stripes: R G K W K G W R W R G K W K G W R W
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2332
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1830 — MacDiarmid Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 1830 — MacDiarmid Dress (Clan?) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2332
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1486
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1486
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
LN/76 R24 LN74 G64 K6 LN8 K6 G64 R/8

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacDiarmid, dress — ΔT 0.34
- MacPherson Dress Green (Dance) — ΔT 0.99
- Puffin (Personal) — ΔT 1.22
- Uist, Green (Dance) — ΔT 1.30
- Forbes - 1880 (Clans Originaux) — ΔT 1.31
- Pollock (Name) — ΔT 1.36
- Kerry County Crest (Fashion) — ΔT 1.37
- McCabe (2016) — ΔT 1.37
- Tilburg Hunting (District) — ΔT 1.37
- MacPherson Dress Blue (Dance) #2 — ΔT 1.41
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.
ID: /setts/s9/w38r12w37g32k3w4k3g32r4~x2/