MacKintosh (Chief) 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 RKWGWGGRKRGGWWKRGGW.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 19 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1616
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1810-15 Logan wrote 'The Chief also wears a particular tartan of a very showy pattern' and the Smiths of Mauchline illustrated it in their 1850 book 'Authenticated Tartans of the Clans & Families of Scotland'
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1810-15 — MacKintosh (Chief) Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/1812 — MacKintosh #8 (register-of-tartans, record)
A sample of this tartan exists in the Cockburn Collection (1810-1820) in the Mitchell Library in Glasgow. This plate is taken from 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. - undated — MacKintosh 7 (weddslist, record)
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
- 1810-15 (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: 2566
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1616
Thread count
R/48 K2 W2 G12 W2 G2 Y4 R4 K2 R4 Y4 G2 W2 LB12 K4 R6 Y6 G4 W/2
One full sett is 198 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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) |
| 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/s19/r24k1w1g6w1g1y2r2k1r2y2g1w1lb6k2r3y3g2w1~x2/