M'Kleod
Bands: RKGRWBKY · Stripes: O K G R W DB K LY O K G R W DB K LY
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2971
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/09/2003 — M'Kleod (register-of-tartans, record)
- Sept 2003 — M'Kleod (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — M'Kleod Personal Tartan Tartan Number: 5985. Earliest known date: 2003 The unusual spelling raised a query with the recording authority. The recording was passed on the basis that the design was categorised as personal. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2971
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5985
Thread count
N/36 K6 G6 R4 LN6 DB72 K4 Y/12

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| G | #289C18 #289C18 | G #006100 | 0.19 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| N | #888888 #888888 | R #CC0000 | 0.24 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Manx National — ΔT 0.80
- Unidentified, Lady's kilt — ΔT 0.81
- Unidentified Lady's kilt — ΔT 1.09
- Highland, Blue (Corporate) — ΔT 1.09
- Yukon (asymmetric) — ΔT 1.16
- Twempy — ΔT 1.19
- Scottish Association for N.S. (Corp) — ΔT 1.20
- Yukon — ΔT 1.23
- Yukon District Tartan Tartan Number: 1907. Earliest known date: 1984 Lord Lyon records a symetrical version. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.24
- Heston (Name) — ΔT 1.24
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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