MacKay, of Strathnaver
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 GRKRBRBRYRGRRRKRGRYRBRBRKRGRKRBRBRYRGRKRRRGRYRBRBRKR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 52 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2037
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
- pre 1930 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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 Tartans Authority (ITI): 2037
Thread count
DG/36 R2 K36 R2 N36 R2 DR36 R2 LY36 R2 DY36 R2 O36 R2 Ki36 R2 DY36 R2 LY36 R2 DR36 R2 N36 R2 K36 R2 DG36 R2 K36 R2 N36 R2 DR36 R2 LY36 R2 DY36 R2 Ki36 R2 O36 R2 DY36 R2 LY36 R2 DR36 R2 N36 R2 K36 R/2
One full sett is 1938 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #480800 #480800 | oklch(26.1% 0.096 33.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| K | #101010 #101010 | oklch(17.3% 0.000 89.9) |
| LY | #A08858 #A08858 | oklch(63.7% 0.071 84.0) |
| N | #5C5C5C #5C5C5C | oklch(47.5% 0.000 89.9) |
| O | #888888 #888888 | oklch(62.7% 0.000 89.9) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s27/dg18r1k18r1n18r1dr18r1ly18r1dy18r1ki18r1o18r1dy18r1ly18r1dr18r1n18r1k18r1dg18x2n1900000-dr1004029-ly2503076-ki0700000-o2500000/