MacBean, Meta (Personal)
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 KWWWWWGWRBGBRWGWRBGBRWGWWWWWR.
Part of the MacBean, Meta tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 29 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2294
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1972 — MacBean, Meta (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Private design by James Scarlett MBE for his and Meta's wedding, 1972. An arisaid setting of the Lyon MacBain GWR:RWB. Meta died in 2000. This differs from the dress MacBean in that the latter has black guards on the red line dissecting the white band and that a red line appears on every broad white band. - 1972 — MacBean, Meta (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Private -- by James Scarlett for his and Meta's wedding, 1972. . An arisaid setting of the Lyon MacBain GWR:RWB . Meta died in 2000. This differs from the dress MacBean in that the latter has black guards on the red line dissecting the white band and that red line appears on every broad white band. Woven sample. - undated — MacBean, Meta.. (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
- 1972 (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: 2294
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1220
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1220
Thread count
K/12 W80 LB10 W4 LB10 W10 G24 W10 R10 DR10 G4 DR10 R10 W10 G20 W10 R10 DR10 G4 DR10 R10 W10 G24 W10 LB10 W4 LB10 W80 R/12
One full sett is 872 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| 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) |
| 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/s29/k6w40lb5w2lb5w5g12w5r5dr5g2dr5r5w5g10w5r5dr5g2dr5r5w5g12w5lb5w2lb5w40r6~x2/