MacGlashan #2

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 BYBWBWBRYRYRYR.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2445

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
2017-01-06 (dataset default)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

N/20 LY4 N12 LB24 N4 LB12 N4 O20 LY4 O12 LY24 O4 LY12 O/4

One full sett is 296 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
O#BE7832 #BE7832oklch(63.5% 0.121 62.2)
N#636363 #636363oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9)
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
LY#FADC00 #FADC00oklch(89.2% 0.185 99.2)

Sample pattern

N/20 LY4 N12 LB24 N4 LB12 N4 O20 LY4 O12 LY24 O4 LY12 O/4 tartan

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.

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ID: /variants/s14/n5ly1n3lb6n1lb3n1o5ly1o3ly6o1ly3o1x4ly3607098-o2505058/

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