McCall (Caithness)
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 BKBBBWBBBWBBGBG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10360
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 28/01/2011 — McCall (Caithness) (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan was created for the Caithness McCalls. Colours: Black represents the death march to Durham Cathedral after the Battle of Dunbar; Dark Red represents the blood the McCall ancestors shed for Scotland; Green represents the family ties to Ireland; Heather represents the oral tradition of the McCalls' Collas blood; and Light Grey represents the McCalls' dedication to Christ. Although designed principally for Caithness McCalls, anyone bearing the McCall name may wear this tartan. Created using the online tartan design software at www.scotweb.co.uk. - 28th Jan 2011 — McCall (Caithness) (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
This tartan was created for the Caithness McCalls. Colours: Black represents the death march to Durham Cathedral after the Battle of Dunbar; Dark Red represents the blood the McCall ancestors shed for Scotland; Green represents the family ties to Ireland; Heather represents the oral tradition of the McCalls' Collas blood; and Light Grey represents the McCalls' dedication to Christ. Although designed principally for Caithness McCalls, anyone bearing the McCall name may wear this 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
- 28/01/2011 (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: 10360
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10360
Thread count
DR/12 K8 DR16 DP32 DR12 LB4 DR4 DP4 DR4 LB4 DR12 DP36 G12 DP4 G/2
One full sett is 318 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) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
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/s15/dr6k4dr8dp16dr6lb2dr2dp2dr2lb2dr6dp18g6dp2g1~x2/