MacDonald of Prince Edward Island
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 BKBKWKBKGRGRGKGKGRGRGKBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 24 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2366
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — MacDonald of Prince Edward Island (register-of-tartans, record)
Not known if this is a Fashion tartan or a Clan/Family. Scottish Tartans Society records say that it was designed by a (not THE) Flora MacDonald and the proportions are 'to sample' which suggests that they had a woven sample in their possession. - undated — MacDonald, of Pr Edward Island (weddslist, record)
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
- 2002 (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: 2366
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1973
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1973
Thread count
R/48 DB12 K16 G12 R2 G12 R4 G6 K2 Y4 K2 G2 R2 G4 R2 G14 K18 DB22 K2 W4 K2 DB22 K18 DB/16
One full sett is 432 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s24/r24db6k8g6r1g6r2g3k1y2k1g1r1g2r1g7k9db11k1w2k1db11k9db8~x2/