MacDonald of Lochmaddy
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 GRGRWWRBRWWRGRWWR.
Part of the MacDonald of Lochmaddy tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 17 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2365
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1950 — MacDonald of Lochmaddy (register-of-tartans, record)
Captain MacDonald of Lochmaddy is the source given by Scottish Tartans Society but other notes mention Coulson Bonnar and a date of 1950. Peter MacDonald adds in July 2004 'The sample is from the Coulson Bonnar collection where it is named MacDonald of Loch Mhaddy' Lochmaddy is a sea loch and settlement in the north east corner of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. - 1950? — MacDonald of Lochmaddy (Clan?) (tartans-authority, record)
Captain MacDonald of Lochmaddy is the source given by STS but other notes mention Coulson Bonnar and a date of 1950. Peter MacDonald adds in July 2004 "The sample is from the Coulson Bonnar collection where it is named MacDonald of Loch Mhaddy" Lochmaddy is a sea loch and settlement in the north east corner of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides.
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
- 1950 (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: 2365
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 971
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 971
Thread count
R/26 W2 LT4 R4 G28 R4 W2 LT4 R4 DB8 R4 LT4 W2 R32 G2 R4 G/6
One full sett is 248 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| LT | #64D1D9 #64D1D9 | oklch(80.0% 0.100 201.8) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s17/r13w1lt2r2g14r2w1lt2r2db4r2lt2w1r16g1r2g3~x2/