MacCormick (Dress)
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 BKBKGK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2323
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1985 — MacCormick (Dress) (register-of-tartans, record)
From Philip D.Smith, reported registered with Scottish Tartans Society by Pendleton Woolen Mills of Oregon, 1 July 1985. Very close to the Lindsay tartan (#704, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference). Sometimes referred to as the MacCormick Dress. The sett is the same as Campbell (#12, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference). Pendleton could - in the long tradition of tartan design - have responded to a request for a MacCormick tartan by taking an existing Scottish tartan and just changing the colours. This appears to have been the basis for many of the alleged Irish 'family' tartans. - 1985 — MacCormick Dress (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
From Philip D.Smith, reported registered with STS by Pendleton Woolen Mills of Oregon, 1 July 1985. Very close to the Lindsay tartan (#704). Sometimes referred to as the MacCormick Dress. The sett is the same as Campbell (#12). Pendleton could - in the long tradition of tartan design - have responded to a request for a MacCormick tartan by taking an existing Scottish tartan and just changing the colours. This appears to have been the basis for many of the alleged Irish 'family' tartans.
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
- 1985 (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: 2323
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1091
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1091
Thread count
K/6 G26 K20 DR26 K4 DR/6
One full sett is 164 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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/k3g13k10dr13k2dr3~x2/