MacAlister Dress
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 RGGRGGRBRWRWRWWWRGRWWGRWRWRGGR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 30 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2268
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/03/2005 — MacAlister Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
A dress tartan for MacAlisters, approved by the Chief on 1st April 2005. Designed by Mark Osweiler of Minneapolis, USA. Also chosen as the official tartan of the MacAlister Clan Society of North America. The threadcount was halved for weaving. Although the copyright is held by Mark Osweiler, the clan society encourages its use by 'any and all'. - 2005, March — MacAlister Dress (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
A dress tartan for MacAlisters - approved by the Chief on 1st April 2005. Designed by Mark Osweiler of Minneapolis, USA. Also chosen as the official tartan of the MacAlister Clan Society of North America. Clan MacAlister USA also wanted a tartan that they could present to the Chief's sons when he received his coat of arms. The threadcount used for the weaving was actually half what is recorded here. Although the copyright is held by Mark Osweiler, the clan society encourages its use by 'any and all'.
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
- 01/03/2005 (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: 2268
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6629
Thread count
R/48 G12 Y4 R8 Y4 G12 R12 DB12 R24 LB4 R4 W32 R4 LB4 W48 LB4 R4 G32 R4 LB4 W24 G8 R4 LB4 R8 LB4 R4 G12 Y4 R/16
One full sett is 672 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s30/r12g3y1r2y1g3r3db3r6lb1r1w8r1lb1w12lb1r1g8r1lb1w6g2r1lb1r2lb1r1g3y1r4~x4/