McCulloch (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 BBBBBYWRWYGKGKG.
Part of the McCulloch tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7380
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 2007 — McCulloch (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
STWR notes: "Designed for the family of Grant McCulloch to celebrate the connection with the Armed Services since 1296. He himself have been a Royal Scot for 22 years. The colours represent:- Poppy Red for the Mccullochs who fell in the service of King and Queen from 1296-2007. Bottle and Moss Green for those in H.M Force's Army over 807 years of family history.In the immediate family this amounts to 110 years. Slate and Electric Blue, Battleship Grey: This is for father Hay Mcculloch's worldwide Naval service on Aircraft Carriers, Destoyers and Motor Torpedo Boats. Also for mother Christina Mcquid (Veitch) Mcculloch hazadous duties in the !940-45 War in Ammunition factories. It celebrates their silver wedding anniversary of 2006. Silver Grey: In honour of the medals received during the Mcculloch military service taken from 1296, World War 2, Falkland Islands, Gulf One (Desert Storm), Bosnia and over two emergency tours. Use of the tartan is control by Grant McCulloch." - undated — McCulloch (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Scottish Tartans World Register notes: "Designed for the family of Grant McCulloch to celebrate the connection with the Armed Services since 1296. He himself has been a Royal Scot for 22 years. The colours represent:- Poppy Red for the Mccullochs who fell in the service of King and Queen from 1296-2007. Bottle and Moss Green for those in H.M Force's Army over 807 years of family history. In the immediate family this amounts to 110 years. Slate and Electric Blue, Battleship Grey: This is for father Hay Mcculloch's worldwide Naval service on Aircraft Carriers, Destoyers and Motor Torpedo Boats. Also for mother Christina Mcquid (Veitch) Mcculloch hazadous duties in the !940-45 War in Ammunition factories. It celebrates their silver wedding anniversary of 2006. Silver Grey: In honour of the medals received during the Mcculloch military service taken from 1296, World War 2, Falkland Islands, Gulf One (Desert Storm), Bosnia and over two emergency tours Use of the tartan is controlled by Grant McCulloch."
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- pre 2007 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5479
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7380
Thread count
G/24 K4 G4 K4 G12 LR4 W4 R4 W4 LR4 T12 DB4 T4 DB4 T/24
One full sett is 184 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #2888C4 #2888C4 | oklch(60.1% 0.125 241.5) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LR | #A0A0A0 #A0A0A0 | oklch(70.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 1.20 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/g6k1g1k1g3lr1w1r1w1lr1t3db1t1db1t6x4lr2800000-t2405244/