MacKintosh
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 BRGRBR.
Part of the MacKintosh tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2559
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1819 — MacKintosh (register-of-tartans, record)
Closest to Lord Lyon Recording in LCB1 dated 29th March 1951. Thread count halved here. D.C. Stewart wrote, ''This is one of the few ancient tartans too well authenticated to admit of doubt or question.'' The earliest publication is attributed to Logan but he may well have known of the sample, sealed with signature of the chief, which existed in the collection of the Highland Society of London, dating around 1815. The chief of the MacKintoshes is also chief of Clan Chattan. Logan wrote, ''The chief also wears a particular tartan of a very showy pattern, which has now been registered with Lord Lyon. See #5889 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) for anomaly. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Scarlett Collection. - 1819 — MacKintosh - 1819 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Closest to Lord Lyon Recording in LCB1 dated 29th March 1951. Thread count halved here. D.C. Stewart wrote, ''This is one of the few ancient tartans too well authenticated to admit of doubt or question.'' The earliest publication is attributed to Logan but he may well have known of the sample, sealed with signature of the chief, which existed in the collection of the Highland Society of London, dating around 1815. The chief of the MacKintoshes is also chief of Clan Chattan. Logan wrote, ''The chief also wears a particular tartan of a very showy pattern, which has now been registered with Lord Lyon. See #5889 for anomaly. Sample in STA's Scarlett Collection.
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
- 1819 (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: 2559
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 521
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 521
Thread count
R/70 DB20 R10 G40 R10 DB/3
One full sett is 233 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) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.62 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/r70db20r10g40r10db3/