MacLeod Society of Scotland Clan Tartan
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 GGRKBGBKRG.
Part of the MacLeod Society of Scotland tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2375
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1991 Designed by Rosemary Flemming and Derek MacLeod to celebrate the centenary of the Clan MacLeod Society of Scotland. Trudi Mann of Wick, a TECA scholar, also played a part in the design which was accepted by the Chief as the Society sett. Thread count from Trudi Mann March 2004.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1991 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
G/6 R44 K10 DB44 Y4 DB44 K10 R44 G6 DG/6
One full sett is 424 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #289C18 #289C18 | oklch(60.6% 0.191 141.6) |
| DG | #006818 #006818 | oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 2.56 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/dg3g3r22k5db22y2db22k5r22g3x2dg1806142-g2408144/