MacDonell of Keppoch #3
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 BGBGBGBGBKBKBKB.
Part of the MacDonell of Keppoch tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2388
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1845 — MacDonell of Keppoch #3 (register-of-tartans, record)
This sett has been woven by the House of Edgar, who call it MacDonnell of Keppoch (Ancient). - 1845 — MacDonell of Keppoch - 1845 (McIain) (tartans-authority, record)
This would appear to be from one of McIan's illustrations and is only woven by The House of Edgar who calle it MacDonnell of Keppoch (Ancient). They also weave 511 which is the accepted clan 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
- 1845 (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: 2388
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1506
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1506
Thread count
DR/48 G8 DR4 G4 DR4 G4 DR24 G48 DR4 K4 DR48 K4 DR4 K4 DR/12
One full sett is 388 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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/s15/dr12g2dr1g1dr1g1dr6g12dr1k1dr12k1dr1k1dr3~x4/