MacPherson of Pitmain
In pattern BRKRBRWRB.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5222
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1850 — MacPherson of Pitmain (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1850 — MacPherson of Pitmain (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
DB/4 DR4 K32 DR4 DB4 DR4 LN32 DR4 DB/4

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | B #2C4084 | 0.14 |
| DR | #880000 #880000 | R #C80000 | 0.14 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacPherson Hunting (Old & Rare) Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 548. Earliest known date: 1893 'Old and Rare Scottish Tartans' (1893), contains a selection of forty five setts, woven in silk, of special interest or antiquity. Many of the illustrated tartans owe their present day popularity to the publication of this work. The author was D. W. Stewart. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.36
- MacPherson 2 — ΔT 0.37
- MacPherson — ΔT 0.49
- MacPherson 3 — ΔT 0.79
- MacPherson #4 — ΔT 0.96
- Bannock Bane M.407 — ΔT 1.08
- MacPherson Htg — ΔT 1.14
- Mearns Castle High School — ΔT 1.17
- MacPherson of Pitmain — ΔT 1.17
- Andreou Family (Personal) — ΔT 1.18
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.
ID: /setts/s9/b4r4k32r4b4r4w32r4b4-b1c0070-k101010-r880000-we0e0e0/