MacBride
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 YGKBKBKGBGKGY.
Part of the MacBride 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=2303
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1992 — MacBride (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed in 1992 by Harry Lindley for Captain Stuart C MacBride. The family of MacBride, (from Saint Bride or Brigid) were a sept of the MacDonalds. The tartan was created from the Ensigns Armorial recently granted by Lord Lyon. Mr MacBride is a member of the Weaver Incorporation of Aberdeen. - 1992 — MacBride (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed 1992 by Harry Lindley for Capt.Stuart C. MacBride. The family of MacBride, (from SaintBride or Brigid) are known to have been a sept of the MacDonalds. Head of the family, Mr Stuart C. MacBride, commissioned Mr Harry Lindley to create a MacBride tartan from the Ensigns Armorial recently granted by Lord Lyon. Mr MacBride is a member of the Weaver Incorporation of Aberdeen. Traditionally members of the family, as a courtesy, ask permission of the chief or head of the family before wearing his tartan.
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
- 1992 (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: 2303
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2144
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2144
Thread count
LO/6 G30 K30 DB30 K4 DB30 K30 G30 DP6 G30 K30 G30 LO/6
One full sett is 572 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| 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/s13/lo3g15k15db15k2db15k15g15dp3g15k15g15lo3~x2/