MacDonald of Glencoe #3
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 GRRGRGKRGRKRR.
Part of the MacDonald of Glencoe tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2361
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1800 — MacDonald of Glencoe #3 (register-of-tartans, record)
John Cargill's threadcount taken from a fragment of a sample in Fort William Museum. Cargill also gives Pink in place of Old Gold. The piece is labelled "found in Glencoe" without any suggestion of its being a Macdonald. See Scottish Tartans World Register #2362. - c1950 — MacDonald of Glencoe - 1950 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
A fragment of cloth in the West Highland Museum in Fort William referred to as a 'Cargill frag.' A swatch of this - which he wove - is in Peter MacDonald's collection. It's thought that the fragment referred to was found in Glencoe and automatically attributed to the the MacDonalds with no proof other than the Glencoe connection. There may be an error here Cf MacColl #899
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
- 1800 (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: 2361
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1012
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1012
Thread count
G/16 Ri2 R12 G6 R80 Y4 K24 R12 G60 R6 K4 Ri2 R/12
One full sett is 452 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| R | #CC4438 #CC4438 | oklch(57.7% 0.174 28.7) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 1.19 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/s13/g8ri1r6g3r40y2k12r6g30r3k2ri1r6x2ri2307033-r2109032/