MacAlister of Glenbarr
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 GRGRGRBRGRBRBR.
Part of the MacAlister of Glenbarr 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=2269
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1989 — MacAlister of Glenbarr (register-of-tartans, record)
Threadcount taken from swatches supplied by Angus Charles Macalister, 5th Laird of Glenbarr in May 1989. A sample is preserved in the MacGregor-Hastie collection, which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. This sett has been adopted by MacAlister societies in America and Australia. The tartan is available from the Clan Macalister Centre at Glenbarr, to aid the restoration fund for the family seat. - pre 1989 — MacAlister of Glenbarr (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Threadcount taken from swatches supplied by Angus Charles Macalister, 5th Laird of Glenbarr. May 1989. This detail from a letter to Ruaraidh MacLeod from Eugene Planck of Colorado (and TECA) dated 28th June 1989. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. This sample comes from the MacGregor-Hastie collection which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. This sett has been adopted by MacAlister Societies in America and Australia. The design can be related to the MacDonald group of tartans, corresponding to the lineage of the MacAlisters. The tartan is available from the Clan Macalister Centre at Glenbarr, to aid the restoration fund for the family seat. Sample in STA's Scarlett Collection.
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
- 1989 (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: 2269
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 877
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 877
Thread count
G/40 R6 G12 R12 G12 R16 DP4 R4 G40 R4 DP4 R92 DP6 R/16
One full sett is 480 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/g20r3g6r6g6r8dp2r2g20r2dp2r46dp3r8~x2/