MacEwen/MacEwan
In pattern RKGKBKBKBKGKY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2428
Also known as
This cloth is also recorded under:
- MacEwen/MacEwan
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/2002 — MacEwen/MacEwan (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 2002 — MacEwen (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2428
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1587
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1587
Thread count
R/4 K4 G24 K24 DB24 K4 DB4 K4 DB24 K24 G24 K4 Y/4

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| Y | #D8B000 #D8B000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.06 |
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The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
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Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14299 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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