Clergy (Mackinlay)
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 KWBKWKWBWKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=681
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- undated — Clergy (Mackinlay) (register-of-tartans, record)
This sett is taken from the notes left by the late James Mackinlay, who says he obtained it from Margaret MacDougall of Inverness Museum. It is the Wilson 'Priest' sett substituting blue for lavender, white for light blue, and with some slight differences in widths (Scottish Tartans Society Revised 1990). The Scottish Tartans Society has no category for tartans specified for occupations, although this tartan was intended for the use of ministers of the church and other professional persons. James Mackinlays collection is in the Scottish Tartans Society archive. - undated — Clergy 4 (weddslist, record)
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
- 2017-01-06 (dataset default)
- 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: 681
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1222
Thread count
K/2 W2 DB16 K18 W2 K18 W2 DB4 W2 K8 W/2
One full sett is 148 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s11/k1w1db8k9w1k9w1db2w1k4w1~x2/