Mackay, John W. (Personal)
In pattern KGYKGBRGR.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2505
Also known as
This cloth is also recorded under:
- Mackay, John
- Mackay, John W.
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/09/1996 — Mackay, John W. (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1996 — Mackay, John (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — John.W.Mackay Family Tartan Tartan Number: 2283. Earliest known date: 1996 Designed for a John MacKay when he retired from the Post Office. 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: 2505
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2283
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2283
Thread count
K/8 G70 DY2 K36 G6 DB36 DR6 G6 DR/6

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 #2A418A | 0.14 |
| 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 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Sinclair Hunting (VS) — ΔT 0.63
- Hutchens (Personal) — ΔT 0.75
- Kerby/Kirby — ΔT 1.05
- McFadden (Personal) — ΔT 1.06
- Sutherland (Clan) — ΔT 1.07
- Urquhart - 1842 (Clan) — ΔT 1.09
- Sinclair Hunting — ΔT 1.11
- MacDonnald of ye Ylis — ΔT 1.12
- MacDonnald of ye Ylis — ΔT 1.12
- Lusk (Personal) — ΔT 1.14
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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