McCandlish, Red (Name)
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 WKBKBKBKRKY.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3324
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1992 — McCandlish, Red (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
This suite of tartans was designed in 1992 by Stanton Ward Foster McCandlish in Albuquerque, New Mexico with help from the legendary J Charles 'Scotty' Thompson FSTS and loosely based on the Black Watch tartan. "The yellow stripe in the tartan represents the "bright line" events that forked the family into McCandlish and McCandless, namely the Jacobite Risings, and our history as a Borders family. Yellow was selected, as well as red (in the original version of the tartan), from the colors of the earliest known McCandlish blazon (coat of arms), "Or, a galley her oars in action, and sails furled sable, flags gules; on a chief of the last three mullets argent." The blue represents the sea, as the vast majority of McCandlishes, McCandlesses and related are among the Gaelic Diaspora, especially in North America and Australia & New Zealand, and it is again a reference to that 13th-century blazon, which features a ship. The increasing width of the black "tram track" stripes from 4 to 8 to 24 threads (or 2-4-12, in smaller weavings) represents the continuing worldwide growth of the name from a once very small family." - undated — MacCandlish Red (register-of-tartans, record)
Originally recorded by the Scottish Tartans Authority, this tartan was most likely produced commercially in Anerica.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 1992 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5216
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3324
Thread count
LB/12 K4 DR48 K4 DR4 K8 DR4 K24 R48 K4 LO/4
One full sett is 312 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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/s11/lb3k1dr12k1dr1k2dr1k6r12k1lo1~x4/