Mercer, Charles
In pattern BBBYBBRB.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2933
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/2001 — Mercer, Charles (register-of-tartans, record)
- 2001 — Mercer, Charles (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
B/16 R4 DB8 B28 Y4 DB8 B8 DB/36

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 #2C4084 | 0.15 |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
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- Joker Fancy Tartan Tartan Number: 6769. Earliest known date: 2005 I have a photo of a fabric swatch that I am trying to match as close as possible. I have been commissioned to make a life size mannequin of Jack Nicholson as the Joker and he wore plaid/tartan pants. I could send you some photos through email and possibly you could help me. Thanks, Andy Garringer USA, January 2008. (96 threads @ 40 epi heavyweight = 2.5 inch repeat) See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.66
- Van Loo (Personal) — ΔT 1.66
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.
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