MacBean (1847)
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 GWRRGRRWKGKWKBWBKWR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 19 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2291
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1847 — MacBean (1847) (register-of-tartans, record)
This is the standard clan tartan although it does not agree with the count registered in the Lord Lyon's 'Public Register of all Arms & Bearings in Scotland' on 8th March 1960. - 1847 ish — MacBean (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
This is the standard clan tartan although it does not agree with the count registered in the Lord Lyon's 'Public Register of all Arms & Bearings in Scotland" on 8th March 1960. STS notes refer to a letter of 31.10.98 and go on to say: "MacBains, MacBeans, and MacVeans are all forms of the same name possibly from the same origin as the early Scottish King, Donald Ban. The principle family is MacBean of Kinchyle from the northern end of Loch Ness. The MacBains are closely associated with Mackintosh and this is apparent in the design of the tartan." The original STS notes said that this was the version recorded by Lord Lyon under the name MacBain but that is not the case - the Lord Lyon count is shown exactly at #951. A piece of the MacBean tartan went to the moon and back in Apollo XII in Nov. 1969 with Cdr Alan L Bean.
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
- 1847 (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: 2291
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 952
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 952
Thread count
R/114 W4 K8 DB4 W4 DB4 K4 W4 K4 G20 K4 W4 R8 O8 G4 O8 R8 W4 G/14
One full sett is 336 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) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/r57w2k4db2w2db2k2w2k2g10k2w2r4o4g2o4r4w2g7~x2/