Mackison
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 BBBKGR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2579
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2007 — Mackison (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed in January 2007 by Steven Mackison who is hoping to 'get the Mackisons recognised as a clan' by Lord Lyon. The Tartan is a modification of the Menteith district Tartan. The Mackisons trace their name to St. Mackessog (Mackessan) the original patron Saint of Scotland, an Irish Missionary Bishop who settled in and around Luss and other areas of Lomondside. The Mackisons begin as residents of Menteith district and latterly were popoulous in Perthshire, particularly in the parish of Kilmadock. The thread-counts from the Menteith tartan have been reversed with green becoming dark blue and blue becoming green. The white in the Menteith has been with a purple, indicative of St. Mackessan's status as a Bishop. - Janaury 2007 — Mackison (Clan?) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed in January 2007 by Steven Mackison who is hoping to 'get the Mackisons recognised as a clan' by Lord Lyon. The Tartan is a modification of the Menteith district Tartan. The Mackisons trace their name to St. Mackessog (Mackessan) the original patron Saint of Scotland, an Irish Missionary Bishop who settled in and around Luss and other areas of Lomondside. The Mackisons begin as residents of Menteith district and latterly were populous in Perthshire, particularly in the parish of Kilmadock. The thread-counts from the Menteith tartan have been reversed with green becoming dark blue and blue becoming green. The white in the Menteith has been, with purple, indicative of St. Mackessan?s status as a Bishop.
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
- 2007 (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: 2579
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7089
Thread count
DB/36 DP2 DB24 K28 G28 R/4
One full sett is 204 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) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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/s6/db18dp1db12k14g14r2~x2/