MacNeil Dress
Bands: BKGYGKWBWBWBWBWKBW · Stripes: B K G LY G K W B W B W B W B W K B W B K G LY G K W B W B W B W B W K B W
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2685
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1830 — MacNeil Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1830ish — MacNeil Dress (Unofficial) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2685
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1974
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1974
Thread count
B/36 K26 G36 Y8 G36 K26 LN8 B8 LN36 B8 LN8 B8 LN36 B8 LN8 K26 B36 LN/8

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #1474B4 #1474B4 | B #2A418A | 0.15 |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacNeil dress — ΔT 0.73
- Idaho — ΔT 1.10
- MacKenzie Dress #4 — ΔT 1.23
- Idaho (District) — ΔT 1.26
- Gordon Dress Tartan Tartan Number: 294. Earliest known date: pre 2003 No source given See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.31
- Campbell Dress — ΔT 1.31
- Gordon Dress — ΔT 1.35
- Murray, dress White — ΔT 1.37
- MacKenzie, dress — ΔT 1.38
- Missouri Dress (Proposed) (District) — ΔT 1.38
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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