MacDowall
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 GWKWKWKBKBGW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2410
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2007 There had been no previous tartan for the senior branch of the ancient Lords of Galloway . This was designed by MacDowall of Garthland* in conjunction with Gordon Kirkbright of Fraser & Kirkbright, weavers of Vancouver B.C. The design is a much modified Hunting Stewart of Galloway incorporating the Macdowall of Galloway livery colours. Prof. Fergus Day Hort Macdowall of that Ilk, Garthland and Castlesemple, Chief of the MacDowalls.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2007 — MacDowall (register-of-tartans, record)
Threadcount recorded by Fergus MacDowall, Chief of the MacDowalls, in the Lyon Court Books (writs section), 151, 19 March 2008. Originally woven by Fraser and Kirkbright. - Nov. 2007 — MacDowall (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
There had been no previous tartan for the senior branch of the ancient Lords of Galloway . This was designed by MacDowall of Garthland* in conjunction with Gordon Kirkbright of Fraser & Kirkbright, weavers of Vancouver B.C. The design is a much modified Hunting Stewart of Galloway incorporating the Macdowall of Galloway livery colours. Woven sample. Prof. Fergus D.H.Macdowall of that Ilk, Garthland and Castlesemple, Chief of the MacDowalls. - 2007 — MacDowall Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, 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
- 2007 (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: 2410
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7260
Thread count
Y/6 W24 K6 W6 K6 W6 K14 DB96 K14 DB6 G28 W/6
One full sett is 424 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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/y3w12k3w3k3w3k7db48k7db3g14w3~x2/