Massie/Massey
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 GGKWKGKWGWKGKWG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2852
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1819 — Massie/Massey (register-of-tartans, record)
This is an original William Wilson of Bannockburn tartan entered at #1733, (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) (Wilson's No. 17b) which has been 'adopted' by Major Randal Massey of Dunham as a tartan for the Massies/Masseys and any spelling variations of that name. This is the same sett as the other No.17(a) but with brown in place of red. Sindex note says 'Woven by Jim Scarlett 1969 - made to size of sett but not thread count.' - 1819? — Massie/Massey (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
This is an original William Wilson of Bannockburn tartan entered at #1733 (Wilson's No. 17b) which has been 'adopted' by Major Randal Massey of Dunham as a tartan for the Massies/Masseys and any spelling variations of that name. This is the same sett as the other No.17(a) but with brown in place of red. Sindex note says "Woven by Jim Scarlett 1969 - made to size of sett but not thread count."
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
- 1819 (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: 2852
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6631
Thread count
DY/58 G34 K2 W6 K2 Y4 K20 LB16 DY8 LB16 K20 Y4 K2 W6 DY/58
One full sett is 396 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s15/dy29g17k1w3k1y2k10lb8dy4lb8k10y2k1w3dy29~x2/