MacCoul
Bands: RRBRGRGRRRBRGRGRRR · Stripes: R R DP R DG R DG R R R DP R DG R DG R R R R R DP R DG R DG R R R DP R DG R DG R R R
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2327
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: 2327
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1635
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1635
Thread count
R/8 Ra72 DP2 Ra4 DG24 Ra24 DG24 R12 Ra4 R12 DP24 Ra8 DG4 Ra8 DG4 Ra4 R4 Ra/24
Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DG | #003820 #003820 | G #006100 | 0.15 |
| DP | #440044 #440044 | B #2A418A | 0.18 |
| R | #CC4438 #CC4438 | R #CC0000 | 0.06 |
| Ra | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacCoul Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1635. Earliest known date: 1850 This plate is taken from the manuscript of William and Andrew Smith's 'Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland'. The Smith's sources included the findings of George Hunter, an Army clothier, who toured the Highlands in search of old tartans prior to 1822. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.43
- MacCoul — ΔT 0.69
- Fiddes #3 — ΔT 0.95
- Fiddes — ΔT 1.18
- Drummond - 1819 (Clan) — ΔT 1.26
- MacDougall — ΔT 1.37
- MacDougall #8 — ΔT 1.44
- Unnamed 18th century plaid from Rothiemurchus — ΔT 1.44
- Dalziel (Clan) — ΔT 1.44
- MacDougal 4 — ΔT 1.45
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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