MacRae (Red)
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 GRGRBRBRBRBRBRBRWRBRBRWRGRGRGRG.
Part of the MacRae tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 31 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2742
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1850 — MacRae (Red) (register-of-tartans, record)
Green lightened to show sett. This plate is taken from the manuscript of W and A Smith 'Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland'. The Smith's sources included the findings of George Hunter, who toured the Highlands in search of old tartans prior to 1822. Smiths' entry reads 'Our specimen besides being approved by the manufacturers and dealers, has had the concurrence of a gentleman of the name, who has bestowed a good deal of attention on Clan matters.' - 1850 — MacRae - 1850 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Green lightened to show sett. This plate is taken from the manuscript of William and Andrew Smith's 'Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland'. The Smith's sources included the findings of George Hunter, who toured the Highlands in search of old tartans prior to 1822. Smiths' entry reads "Our specimen . . .besides being approved by the manufacturers and dealers, has had the concurrence of a gentleman of the name, who has bestowed a good deal of attention on Clan matters."
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
- 1850 (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: 2742
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 859
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 859
Thread count
G/16 R4 G16 R16 DB4 R4 DB4 R4 DB4 R16 DB4 R4 DB4 R4 DB4 R16 W4 R4 DB16 R4 DB16 R4 W4 R16 G4 R4 G4 R16 G16 R4 G/16
One full sett is 480 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) |
| 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/s31/g4r1g4r4db1r1db1r1db1r4db1r1db1r1db1r4w1r1db4r1db4r1w1r4g1r1g1r4g4r1g4~x4/