MacGlashan Clan Tartan
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 BWRBBWGRBRGWYWBR.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 16 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=656
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1982 Author an historian, Dr Philip Smith, lives in the USA and provides up to date information of new designs of tartan produced in the Americas. MacGlashan is associated with Clan MacKintosh or Clan Stewart.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1982 — MacGlashan Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — MacGlashan (register-of-tartans, record)
Author and historian, Dr Philip Smith, lives in the USA and provides information of tartan found both in Scotland and America. of new designs of tartan produced in the Americas. MacGlashan is associated with Clan MacKintosh or Clan Stewart.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1982 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 2444
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 656
Thread count
R/50 DO6 W4 LY50 W6 Y10 R8 DO4 R8 Y10 W6 DB8 DO10 R12 W2 DB/2
One full sett is 340 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DO | #412714 #412714 | oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s16/r25do3w2ly25w3y5r4do2r4y5w3db4do5r6w1db1~x2/