MacKintosh (Chief)
Bands: RKWGWYRKRYWBKRYW · Stripes: R K W DG W LY R K R LY W T K R LY W R K W DG W LY R K R LY W T K R LY W
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 16 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2569
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1850 — MacKintosh (Chief) (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1850 — Hong Kong Police Pipe Band (Corp) (tartans-authority, record)
- c1800 — MacKintosh Chief - 1819 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2569
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1622
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1622
Thread count
LN/2 Y6 R6 K4 B12 LN2 Y4 R4 K2 R4 Y4 LN2 G12 LN2 K2 R/48
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 #2A418A | 0.23 |
| G | #285800 #285800 | G #006100 | 0.03 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacKintosh #8 — ΔT 0.55
- MacGill Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1487. Earliest known date: pre 1745 This sample comes from the MacGregor-Hastie collection which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. One can assume that the sample dates between 1930 and 1950. The family tartan, which originated with the MacGills of Jura, was in use before 1745 but when tartan was proscribed the sett seemed to have been lost until a piece was discovered in Kintyre. It is now in the Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh. The current version, which first appeared in 1930, is known as the MacGill Society tartan. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.70
- MacKintosh 7 — ΔT 0.76
- MacBain/MacBean — ΔT 0.87
- MacBain Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 951. Earliest known date: 1960 (1847) MacBains, MacBeans, and MacVeans are all forms of the same name possibly from the same origin as the early Scottish King, Donald Ban. The principle family is MacBean of Kinchyle from the northern end of Loch Ness. The MacBains are closely associated with Mackintosh and this is apparent in the design of the tartan. This version, recorded by Lord Lyon under the name MacBain, shows a minor variation on the earlier MacBean sett attributed to McIan (1847). See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.92
- North West, Mounted Police — ΔT 1.01
- MacBain — ΔT 1.06
- MacBean (1847) — ΔT 1.07
- MacBean Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 952. Earliest known date: pre 1963 The MacBains are closely associated with Mackintosh and this is apparent in the design of the tartan. A slightly different version is recorded by Lord Lyon (P.R.A. 43/108 - 8th March 1960) under the name MacBain. This version is available from the House of Edgar Old and Rare range. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.10
- Stuart/Stewart of Appin #4 — ΔT 1.10
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.
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