MacAlpine (1906)
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 BGBGKGBGBWKGKG.
Part of the MacAlpine tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2275
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1906 — MacAlpine (1906) (register-of-tartans, record)
From W & A K Johnstons' 1906 Book. Scottish Tartans Society notes: Siol Alpine is a name that appears in a number of clans. It is considered to be a branch of the royal Clan Alpin, of the Kings of Dalriada. The tartan is similar to the Hunting Maclean but for the yellow lines. Other tartans connected with Siol Alpin are red. The Scottish Tartans Society graphics in their Register are wrong in that they show a symmetrical tartan. - pre 1906 — MacAlpine (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. From W & A K Johnstons' 1906 Book. STS notes: Siol Alpine is a name that appears in a number of clans. It is considered to be a branch of the royal Clan Alpin, of the Kings of Dalriada. The tartan is similar to the Hunting Maclean but for the yellow lines. Other tartans connected with Siol Alpin are red. The Tartans Society graphics in their Register are wrong in that they show a symmetrical 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
- 1906 (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: 2275
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1914
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1914
Thread count
DB/16 G4 DB4 G24 K4 G24 DB4 G4 DB16 W4 K16 G4 K16 Y/4
One full sett is 268 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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) |
| 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/s14/db4g1db1g6k1g6db1g1db4w1k4g1k4y1~x4/