MacRae (MacCrae)
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 BGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGWGBGBGWGBGBGBGB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 31 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2740
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- undated — MacRae (MacCrae) (register-of-tartans, record)
Wilson's of Bannockburn made two patterns, 'Rae' and 'MacCrae'; Rae was Ross with green for red and all the other stripes in purple; in MacCrae the same treatment was applied to the red MacRae tartan except for the white overchecks which remained. (Scarlett-1990). Wilsons of Bannockburn a weaving firm founded c1770 near Stirling. The Pattern books are in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh. Copys of the Pattern books and letters in the Scottish Tartans Society archive - undated — MacRae, (MacCrae) (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
- 2017-01-06 (dataset default)
- 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: 2740
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 101
Thread count
DP/50 G12 DP50 G52 DP10 G14 DP10 G52 W6 G14 DP58 G12 DP58 G14 W6 G52 DP4 G4 DP8 G4 DP4 G52 DP4 G4 DP8 G4 DP4 G52 DP50 G12 DP/50
One full sett is 1368 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
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/s31/dp25g6dp25g26dp5g7dp5g26w3g7dp29g6dp29g7w3g26dp2g2dp4g2dp2g26dp2g2dp4g2dp2g26dp25g6dp25~x2/