MacLachlan Dress
In pattern RWYGWKY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2587
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/2002 — MacLachlan Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 2002 — MacLachlan Dress (Dance) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2587
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 828
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 828
Thread count
DR/72 W6 DY8 G48 W48 K6 DY/12

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR | #880000 #880000 | R #CC0000 | 0.15 |
| DY | #D09800 #D09800 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.12 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| W | #F8F8F8 #F8F8F8 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.00 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacLachlan, dress — ΔT 0.46
- MacLachlan Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 828. Earliest known date: 1990 Based on the MacLachlan pattern in Old And Rare See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.76
- Glasgow — ΔT 0.76
- Project, Faith Inc (Corporate) — ΔT 0.98
- Dutch, dress — ΔT 1.00
- MacLean Dress (Lumsden) — ΔT 1.02
- Dutch Dress — ΔT 1.04
- Bannockbane Orange Stripes — ΔT 1.10
- National Trust Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 2117. Earliest known date: pre 1991 Sent in by Tweedmill for information. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.11
- Unnamed C18th - Pr Ch Ed Plaid? — ΔT 1.12
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14299 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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