MacDonell of Keppoch
This is one variant — a specific cloth: this exact thread count and colourway, with its own provenance below. It is one weaving of the sett (the scale-free proportion — the same cloth at any scale or shade), whose colour order is pattern BRGRBWRBRG.
Part of the MacDonell of Keppoch tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2386
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1746 — MacDonell of Keppoch (register-of-tartans, record)
From W & A K Johnston's 1906 publication which states that it was taken from a piece of tartan dyed and woven by the wife of Alexander XVI of Keppoch who was killed at Culloden. Prince Charles Edward Stuart was said to have been given a plaid in this tartan which he left at Moy Hall in his rushed escape from there. It was kept by the MacKintosh's. - pre 1746 — MacDonell of Keppoch - 1800 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
From W & A K Johnston's 1906 publication which states that it was taken from a piece of tartan dyed and woven by the wife of Alexander XVI of Keppoch who was killed at Culloden. Prince Chalres was said to have been given a plaid in this tartan which he left at Moy Hall in his rushed escape from there. It was kept by the MacKintosh's. Suspect that the original might be a Wilsons' sample. given a c1800 date pro temp. This is the same as 1012. needs resolving. PEM Nov 10
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Register of Tartans
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
- data date
- 1746 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - thetartan/tartan-database 2016-2017 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Levko Kravets's frozen compilation — the capture we vendored, and where its CC licence text came from - this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2386
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 511
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 511
Thread count
DG/4 R4 DB2 R48 LB2 DB12 R6 DG24 R8 DB/2
One full sett is 218 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartan variants
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 13621 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /variants/s10/dg2r2db1r24lb1db6r3dg12r4db1~x2/