MacPherson Hunting

Bands: BRBRBRKRB · Stripes: DB R N R DB R K R DB DB R N R DB R K R DB

This was sourced from weddslist. It is a 9 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

DB/2 R2 K16 R2 DB2 R2 N16 R2 DB/2

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. MacPherson Hunting — ΔT 0.25
2. MacPherson of Pitmain — ΔT 0.51
3. Aitken — ΔT 1.11
4. MacPherson Hunting Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 547. Earliest known date: 1850 This version also appears in Grants 'Tartans of the Clans of Scotland' (1886). D.W.Stewart said (in 1893) "it was the earliest known to have been worn by the clan, and is reputed to have been worn in two forms; as a clan tartan with a white ground and as a hunting tartan with a grey ground". It appeared first in Smiths work of 1850, 'Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland'. Originally recorded in the Urquhart Register as MacPherson of Pitmain. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.13
5. Okada, Yayoi (Personal) — ΔT 1.15
6. Lunar — ΔT 1.18
7. Grady, Highlands — ΔT 1.19
8. Forbes — ΔT 1.22
9. North Berwick Pipe Band (Dancing) — ΔT 1.23
10. Gipsy — 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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