McComb (Personal)
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 BRBKGGG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2878
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 1997 STS notes: Designed for a Mr McComb to play himself in as club captain of a golf club. It is the MacThomas with the over check changed to the clubs colours. Design by Donald Fraser (Oct 2002) of Berwick upon Tweed.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1997 — McComb (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Scottish Tartans Society notes: Designed for a Mr McComb to play himself in as club captain of a golf club. It is the MacThomas with the over check changed to the clubs colours. Design by Donald Fraser (now - Oct 2002) of Berwick upon Tweed. - pre 1997 — McComb (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
STS notes: Designed for a Mr McComb to play himself in as club captain of a golf club. It is the MacThomas with the over check changed to the clubs colours. Design by Donald Fraser (now- Oct 2002) of Berwick upon Tweed. Count received from Phil Smith 15th May 2010 is different - B/6 R8 B84 K100 Y8 FG/6 - sticking with original which was from the Tartans Society. - pre 1997 — MacComb Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, 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
- 1997 (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: 2878
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2340
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2340
Thread count
DB/6 R4 DB36 K12 DG36 Y4 G/6
One full sett is 196 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #006818 #006818 | oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0) |
| G | #408060 #408060 | oklch(54.8% 0.084 160.1) |
| 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/db3r2db18k6dg18y2g3x2dg1806142-g2203152/