MacLaurin of Brioch
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 BKGRGKG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2600
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1856 This sett was approved by the Chief and accepted by the A.G.M. of the Clan MacLaren Society as Dress MacLaren in 1981. The sett has been designed by changing the blue ground of the usual MacLaren sett to white and then centering a blue stripe on the white ground. This illustration is based on a kilt belonging to the designer, Mr I.G.Campbell MacLaren.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1856 — MacLaurin of Brioch (register-of-tartans, record)
David Macgregor Peter's The Baronage of Angus and Mearns (1856). Originally published in 1856, this work provides historical descriptions for 360 families, with comment on the family, its descent, arts, current seat (as of 1846) and related information. - 1856 — MacLaurin of Brioch Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — MacLaurin, of Brioch (weddslist, record)
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
- 1856 (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: 2600
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 344
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 344
Thread count
DB/72 K20 G6 R6 G12 K2 Y/4
One full sett is 168 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s7/db36k10g3r3g6k1y2~x2/