MacKellar Dress
In pattern GWBKGWGYGWG.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2516
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/2002 — MacKellar Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 2002 — MacKellar Dress (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
DG/6 W52 B4 K26 T10 W4 T6 Y8 T6 W4 T/54

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 #2C4084 | 0.23 |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | G #006400 | 0.16 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| T | #604000 #604000 | G #006400 | 0.14 |
| W | #F8F8F8 #F8F8F8 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.01 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacKellar Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 926. Earliest known date: 1976 As worn by Kenneth? - D.C.S. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.28
- Otago Corporate District Tartan Tartan Number: 2317. Earliest known date: 1996 Otago's colours are blue and gold. White on blue is the St Andrews Cross, gold is for the gold discovered in Otago. The black divides the gold to show that the miners came from the four quarters of the world. Red is for the blood ties in the Old Country and black for mourning loved ones never to be seen again. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.44
- MacKellar Dress, Maroon (Dance) — ΔT 0.92
- Hay - Stewart (Fashion) — ΔT 0.94
- Downie Dress — ΔT 1.01
- Hay, or Stewart — ΔT 1.09
- Fredericton (District) — ΔT 1.10
- Otago (District) — ΔT 1.12
- North West Territories Canadian District Tartan Tartan Number: 662. Earliest known date: 1969 Designed at the request of an official of the Canadian Commission who decreed that the predominant colours should be "Green and White - White for the snow covering the Territories for six months of every year and the Green for the other six months." See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.12
- Stewart Dress MINI Tartan Tartan Number: 11790. Earliest known date: See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.14
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.
ID: /setts/s11/g54w4g6y8g6w4g10k26b4w52ga6-b5c8ca8-g604000-ga003820-k101010-wf8f8f8-ye8c000/