MacCoul
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 RRBRGRGRRRBRGRGRRR.
Part of the MacCoul tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2327
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1850 — MacCoul (register-of-tartans, record)
From 'Tartan: the Highland Textile'. This tartan first appears in the manuscript of W and A Smith 'Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland'. The Smith's sources included the findings of George Hunter, an Army clothier, who toured the Highlands in search of old tartans prior to 1822. - 1850 — MacCoul (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
From "Tartan: the Highland Textile". this tartan first appears in the manuscript of William and Andrew Smith's 'Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland'. The Smith's sources included the findings of George Hunter, an Army clothier, who toured the Highlands in search of old tartans prior to 1822.
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
- 1850 (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: 2327
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1635
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1635
Thread count
R/24 Ri4 R4 DG4 R8 DG4 R8 DP24 Ri12 R4 Ri12 DG24 R24 DG24 R4 DP2 R72 Ri/8
One full sett is 500 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| R | #CC4438 #CC4438 | oklch(57.7% 0.174 28.7) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
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/s18/r12ri2r2dg2r4dg2r4dp12ri6r2ri6dg12r12dg12r2dp1r36ri4x2r2109032-ri2307033/