MacColl
Bands: GRGRBRBRBRGRBR · Stripes: DG R DG R DB R DB R DB R DG R DB R DG R DG R DB R DB R DB R DG R DB R
This was sourced from weddslist. It is a 14 band tartan.
Original link http://www.weddslist.com/cgi-bin/tartans/pg.pl?source=rb
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2540
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2625
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2666
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3555
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3808
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1429
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 218
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1010
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1429
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1585
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 218
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 864
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
G/4 R1 G1 R12 DB1 R1 DB3 R1 DB1 R2 G8 R1 DB1 R/12

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #000064 #000064 | B #2A418A | 0.18 |
| G | #004C00 #004C00 | G #006100 | 0.07 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacColl — ΔT 0.52
- MacColl — ΔT 0.82
- MacColl — ΔT 0.86
- MacDonald of Belfinlay — ΔT 0.94
- Robertson #5 — ΔT 1.06
- MacColl #3 — ΔT 1.14
- Rothesay, Duke of — ΔT 1.16
- Drummond of Megginch - Child's Kilt (c.1890) — ΔT 1.17
- Walkers Shortbread (Corporate) — ΔT 1.19
- Grant D — ΔT 1.19
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/s14/r12db1r1dg8r2db1r1db3r1db1r12dg1r1dg4/