Kinnoull (MacRae)

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 GRGRKRKRKRKRKRKRWRBRBRWRGRGRGRGRGGGRGWGW.

Part of the Kinnoull tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 40 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1996

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

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

DG/48 R14 DG48 R52 K4 R4 K10 R4 K4 R52 K4 R4 K10 R4 K4 R52 W6 R24 DB66 R14 DB66 R24 W6 R52 DG8 R24 DG8 R52 DG24 R16 DG24 R24 DG16 G14 DG16 R24 DG18 W6 DG32 W/4

One full sett is 1720 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
DG#005020 #005020oklch(37.7% 0.105 149.6)
G#309C18 #309C18oklch(60.8% 0.188 140.8)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)

Sample pattern

DG/48 R14 DG48 R52 K4 R4 K10 R4 K4 R52 K4 R4 K10 R4 K4 R52 W6 R24 DB66 R14 DB66 R24 W6 R52 DG8 R24 DG8 R52 DG24 R16 DG24 R24 DG16 G14 DG16 R24 DG18 W6 DG32 W/4 tartan

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.

Kinnoull (Clan)Kinnoull (MacRae) - Error?MacRae The Princes Own Clan TartanMacRae Prince's OwnKinnoull (MacRae) Family TartanMacPhersonKinnoullMacKintosh #6Unidentified Scarlett #14Wilson's No.001groundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s40/dg24r7dg24r26k2r2k5r2k2r26k2r2k5r2k2r26w3r12db33r7db33r12w3r26dg4r12dg4r26dg12r8dg12r12dg8g7dg8r12dg9w3dg16w2x2dg1504144-g2408144/

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