MacDougall of MacDougall

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 WBRRGRGRBBRRRBGRGRBRBRRW.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 24 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2408

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
2017-01-06 (dataset default)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  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

LB/4 DP20 R6 Ri8 G144 Ri14 G8 Ri20 DB48 DP12 R10 Ri8 R10 DP14 G48 Ri48 G48 Ri6 DB6 Ri148 DP14 R10 Ri12 LB/4

One full sett is 1332 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
R#C82828 #C82828oklch(54.2% 0.196 26.8)
R#DC0000 #DC0000oklch(56.2% 0.230 29.2)

Sample pattern

LB/4 DP20 R6 Ri8 G144 Ri14 G8 Ri20 DB48 DP12 R10 Ri8 R10 DP14 G48 Ri48 G48 Ri6 DB6 Ri148 DP14 R10 Ri12 LB/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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ID: /variants/s24/lb2dp10r3ri4g72ri7g4ri10db24dp6r5ri4r5dp7g24ri24g24ri3db3ri74dp7r5ri6lb2x2r2208029-ri2209032/

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