MacLellan/McLellan Hunting (Personal)
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 GGRBKBWBKBRKBK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2624
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — MacLellan/McLellan Hunting (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by J R MacLellan of Edinburgh and assumed to be a personal tartan. None of the 'MacLellan' websites seem to know any more than the following: 'Shades of colour will vary from one mill to the next. If you check the tartan shown for MacLellan at other sites there will be a difference in the width of some lines. The three parallel black lines may be equal width and the black yellow black lines may be equal width. Also there are three other tartans registered to the MacLellan name (these will be the personal ones shown here - Scottish Tartans Authority) that are different from the conventional one. - pre 2002 — MacLellan Htg (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
No details on this STS entry apart from the designer being a J R MacLellan of Edinburgh so it is assumed that this is a personal tartan. None of the 'MacLellan' websits seem to know any more viz the following: "Shades of color will vary from one mill to the next. If you check the tartan shown for MacLellan at other sites there will be a difference in the width of some lines. The three parallel black lines may be equal width and the black yellow black lines may be equal width. Also there are three other tartans registered to the MacLellan name (these will be the personal ones shown here - EBW) that are different from the conventional one.
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
- 2002 (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: 2624
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1382
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1382
Thread count
K/8 DB28 K20 R8 DB20 K8 DB20 W4 DB20 K4 DB20 R8 DG28 Y/8
One full sett is 392 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/k2db7k5r2db5k2db5w1db5k1db5r2dg7y2~x4/