Flora, MacDonald Plaid
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 BKBKBKBWBKBRBKGRGRGKWKGRGRGKBKBKB.
Sourced from weddslist. It is a 33 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.weddslist.com/cgi-bin/tartans/pg.pl?source=sts
Provenance
Earliest known date: 18th C Count from a Wilson sample in the STS collection where it is called a 'plaid Belonging to Flora MacDonald' . STS notes query 2nd White stripe.
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
DB/48 K8 DB8 K8 DB8 K44 DB48 W12 DB48 K44 DB36 R48 DB36 K44 G28 R8 G8 R8 G16 K2 W12 K2 G16 R8 G8 R8 G28 K44 DB8 K8 DB8 K8 DB/48
One full sett is 1336 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) |
| 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/s33/db24k4db4k4db4k22db24w6db24k22db18r24db18k22g14r4g4r4g8k1w6k1g8r4g4r4g14k22db4k4db4k4db24~x2/