MacDonald of Denovan Htg (Clan)
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 GBGBGBKGBGBG.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3278
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1980 — MacDonald of Denovan Htg (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
This was the personal tartan of Capt.V.J. McDonald (Signal Regiment), Laird of Denovan but that restriction was emoved and this is now the tartan for all of the surnames EVANS, MacDonald (Clan Ian Vor) and/or DENOVAN. Officers of the Household are also authorised to wear the Tartan. - undated — MacDonald of Denovan (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Personal tartan of Capt VJ McDonald (Royal Army Pay Corps), Laird of Denovan. This tartan is intended for the personal use of the present and future Lairds of Denovan only.
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
- 1980 (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: 5219
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3278
Thread count
G/20 DR4 G6 DR8 G26 DR4 K26 DG26 DR8 DG6 DP4 DG/20
One full sett is 276 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
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/dg10dp2dg3dr4dg13k13dr2g13dr4g3dr2g10~x2/