MacDougall D
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 RGRBRBRWRBRBRGRGBRBBRGRGRBW.
Sourced from weddslist. It is a 27 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.weddslist.com/cgi-bin/tartans/pg.pl?source=tinsel
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Weddslist
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/weddslist/data.csv
- data date
- 2016-11-17 (dataset default)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Weddslist
the living privately compiled reference - 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
Thread count
R/10 G20 R4 DB4 R60 DR6 R4 W2 R4 DR6 R60 DB4 R4 G20 R20 G20 DR8 R4 DR8 DB20 R8 G4 R8 G60 R4 DR6 W/2
One full sett is 748 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/r5g10r2db2r30dr3r2w1r2dr3r30db2r2g10r10g10dr4r2dr4db10r4g2r4g30r2dr3w1~x2/