MacMillan - 1842 (Dress)
Bands: RYRYRYRYR · Stripes: R LY R LY R LY R LY R R LY R LY R LY R LY R
This was sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 9 band tartan.
Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/1723/
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 1842 — MacMillan - 1842 (Dress) (tartans-authority, record)
- 01/01/1880 — MacMillan Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2658
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1723
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1723
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
- MacMillan
- MacMillan
- MacMillan Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1723. Earliest known date: 1906 The modern Dress MacMillan incorporates red and yellow stripes from the ancient design but omits the greens and blues of the Vestiarium version. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
Thread count
DR/4 Y16 DR4 Y16 DR6 Y4 DR24 Y4 DR/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR | #901C38 #901C38 | R #CC0000 | 0.13 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacMillan Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1723. Earliest known date: 1906 The modern Dress MacMillan incorporates red and yellow stripes from the ancient design but omits the greens and blues of the Vestiarium version. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.40
- MacMillan — ΔT 1.45
- Al-Maktoum — ΔT 1.55
- MacMillan — ΔT 1.56
- Makhtoum — ΔT 1.62
- Austin College Page — ΔT 1.68
- Glassary #3 — ΔT 1.73
- Queen Alexandra — ΔT 1.88
- Queen Alexandra (Fashion) — ΔT 1.88
- Bruce — ΔT 1.89
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.
ID: /setts/s9/r3ly2r12ly2r3ly8r2ly8r2~x2/