MacPherson Dress
Bands: WRWKWKY · Stripes: LB R LB K LB K LY LB R LB K LB K LY
This was sourced from weddslist. It is a 7 band tartan.
Original link http://www.weddslist.com/cgi-bin/tartans/pg.pl?source=rb
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2540
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2666
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3808
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 218
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1010
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1585
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 218
Thread count
N/3 R1 N30 K20 N3 K9 Y/1

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | K #000000 | 0.00 |
| N | #D0D0D0 #D0D0D0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.12 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| Y | #FFC800 #FFC800 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.03 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacPherson Dress — ΔT 0.59
- Richecourt, Baron of (Personal) — ΔT 0.78
- MacPherson Dress (1842) — ΔT 0.86
- Gretna Football Club (Corporate) — ΔT 1.03
- Newcastle — ΔT 1.09
- Colbert Check (Fashion) — ΔT 1.13
- Gleneagles — ΔT 1.16
- St. Piran Dress — ΔT 1.21
- Gleneagles, Hotel — ΔT 1.25
- Gleneagles Gold (Dalgleish) — ΔT 1.25
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/s7/lb3r1lb30k20lb3k9ly1/