MacKay (Blue) #2

In pattern KBKBR.

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 5 stripes tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2498

Thread count

K/30 B8 K30 B56 R/4 Sett

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

ColourShadeBaseΔE (OKLab)
B#2C4084 #2C4084B #2C40840.00
K#101010 #101010K #0000000.17
R#DC0000 #DC0000R #C800000.04

Sample pattern

Tartan detail

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

  1. Marchmont (Personal) — ΔT 0.80
  2. Wellington Variation — ΔT 0.82
  3. Perthshire, New /Tourist Board — ΔT 1.11
  4. Swan (Name) — ΔT 1.14
  5. Largan (?) — ΔT 1.14
  6. Gagetown (School) — ΔT 1.21
  7. Barclay Hunting — ΔT 1.35
  8. Royal Scotsman Train (Corporate) — ΔT 1.35
  9. Campbell of Lochawe Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1038. Earliest known date: pre 2003 MacKinlay strip. Sample in STS collection. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.39
  10. Morgan (MacKay Blue) Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 264. Earliest known date: 1842 The design comes from the Vestiarium Scoticum (1842). The authors, the Sobieski Stuart brothers, enjoyed a popular following among the Scottish gentry in the early Victorian era, and in the spirit of the times, added mystery, romance and some spurious historical documentation to the subject of tartan. Of the better known tartans, the book offers some minor variation, but in other cases it provides the only recorded version of many tartans in use today. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.39

Neighbour map

Every grey dot is one of 15726 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.

Marchmont (Personal)Wellington VariationPerthshire, New /Tourist BoardSwan (Name)Largan (?)Gagetown (School)Barclay HuntingRoyal Scotsman Train (Corporate)Campbell of Lochawe Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1038. Earliest known date: pre 2003 MacKinlay strip. Sample in STS collection. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015Morgan (MacKay Blue) Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 264. Earliest known date: 1842 The design comes from the Vestiarium Scoticum (1842). The authors, the Sobieski Stuart brothers, enjoyed a popular following among the Scottish gentry in the early Victorian era, and in the spirit of the times, added mystery, romance and some spurious historical documentation to the subject of tartan. Of the better known tartans, the book offers some minor variation, but in other cases it provides the only recorded version of many tartans in use today. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015

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