Macallan Distillery
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 GRGRGKGWRWRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2272
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1980 — Macallan Distillery (register-of-tartans, record)
This was the first corporate tartan done for the Macallan Distillery at Craigallachie by Johnstons. It is basically MacDonald Clan with a yellow line through it. - mid 1980's — Macallan Distillery (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
This was the first corporate tartan done for the Macallan Distillery at Craigallachie by Johnstons. It is basically MacDonald Clan with a yellow line through it. In those days Macallan was still a family owned company. Later, in 1999 Peter MacArthur of Hamilton were asked to do another tartan by the then owners (#5837).A woven sample in the Dalgety Collection has the yellow line between the green and the black - not between the black and the blue as shown here. Not known which is correct.
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
- 1980 (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: 2272
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5836
Thread count
G/16 R2 G4 R6 G24 K24 DY2 LB24 R6 LB4 R2 LB/16
One full sett is 228 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/g8r1g2r3g12k12dy1lb12r3lb2r1lb8~x2/