MacInroy (Wedding) (Personal)
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 BGBGBGKRGRGR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2479
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1850 — MacInroy (Wedding) (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
According to Jamie Scarlett MBE, this tartan comes from W and A Smith Mss Book c.1850 and possibly celebrates the 1826 marriage between General Sir John MacDonald of Dalchonsie and Dunalasdair and Adriana MacInroy of Lude. W and A Smith 'Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland' included the findings of George Hunter, an Army clothier, who toured the Highlands in search of old tartans prior to 1822. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Scarlett Collection. - 1850 — MacInroy (Wedding) (tartans-authority, record)
According to James Scarlett, this comes from Smiths' Mss Book C.1850 and possibliy celebrates the 1826 marriage between General Sir John MacDonald of Dalchonsie and Dunalasdair and Adriana MacInroy of Lude. William and Andrew Smith's 'Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland' included the findings of George Hunter, an Army clothier, who toured the Highlands in search of old tartans prior to 1822. Sample in STA's Scarlett Collection. - undated — MacInroy (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
- 1850 (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: 2479
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 133
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 133
Thread count
DB/20 G2 DB4 G6 DB32 G2 K32 R32 G6 R4 G2 R/20
One full sett is 284 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s12/db10g1db2g3db16g1k16r16g3r2g1r10~x2/