McPrato
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 BRBRGBGBGBBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2902
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/05/2003 — McPrato (register-of-tartans, record)
Specially designed for the Tuscan (Italy) city of Prato and launched at the tartan exhibition mounted by the Scottish Tartans Authority at the Museo del Tessuto (Museum of Textiles) in Prato in December 2003. The tartan was woven in wool and in a pile carpet and incorporated into the exhibition. All rights were handed over to the Prato authorities in December 2003. Lochcarron swatch. - May 2003 — McPrato (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Specially designed for the Tuscan (Italy) city of Prato and launched at the tartan exhibition mounted by the Scottish Tartans Authority at the Museo del Tessuto (Museum of Textiles) in Prato in December 2003. The tartan was woven in wool and in a pile carpet and incorporated into the exhibition. All rights were handed over to the Prato authorities in December 2003. Lochcarron swatch.
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
- 01/05/2003 (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: 2902
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5838
Thread count
R/104 DB24 N18 Y4 N4 G4 N4 DG22 R14 N4 R6 DB/4
One full sett is 316 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #289C18 #289C18 | oklch(60.6% 0.191 141.6) |
| DG | #006818 #006818 | oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/r52db12n9y2n2g2n2dg11r7n2r3db2x2g2408144-dg1806142/