Merchiston Castle School Pipe Band
In pattern KWKWRWKWKBR.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2935
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1988 — Merchiston Castle School Pipe Band (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1996 — Merchiston Castle School (P&D) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
K/24 W12 K12 W12 R8 W26 K6 W8 K16 DB48 R/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #202060 #202060 | B #2C4084 | 0.11 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F4F4F0 | 0.03 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacDonald, Pattern of Plaids — ΔT 0.49
- Merchiston, Castle School Pipers — ΔT 0.65
- MacDonald Pattern of Plaids — ΔT 0.77
- Poulter SG 102 (Fashion) — ΔT 1.00
- Kinloch Anderson Dress — ΔT 1.01
- Gordon (Clan) — ΔT 1.04
- Poulter SG 103 (Fashion) — ΔT 1.04
- Merchiston Castle School — ΔT 1.06
- Black and White — ΔT 1.06
- Unidentified (ex Tony Murray) — ΔT 1.09
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/k24w12k12w12r8w26k6w8k16b48r6-b202060-k101010-rc80000-wfcfcfc/