MacFarhadian (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 KRGWKGBRGRBGRBRGBR.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 18 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=6375

Provenance

Earliest known date: 2003 During the design process, a version missing the white pivot was woven. A new piece was woven to replace the first but, in old Scots style, the original was put to good use. This tartan, therefore, has two versions extant. Designed to be woven with a 6 inch repeat and 2 thread stripes. Andre said, "I have designed a tartan around some of the major elements found in the tartans of her ancestors: Leitch; Munro; Wilson; Stuart.".

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 2003 — MacFarhadian (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
    Designer Andre Lavigne said, "I have designed a tartan around some of the major elements found in the tartans of her ancestors: Leitch; Munro; Wilson; Stuart." It's not known who the 'her' is in these notes.
  • 2003 — MacFarhadian Canadian Personal Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
2003 (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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

R/110 DP2 Y2 R6 DP14 R6 Y2 DP2 R6 G32 R6 DP2 Y2 K6 W2 G10 R6 K/4

One full sett is 326 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

R/110 DP2 Y2 R6 DP14 R6 Y2 DP2 R6 G32 R6 DP2 Y2 K6 W2 G10 R6 K/4 tartan

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.

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