MacNaughton Clan Tartan
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 BRBKGRB.
Part of the MacNaughton tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=404
Provenance
Earliest known date: (1831) MacNaughtons once were found in Lochawe, Glenaray, Loch Fyne and Glenshira. Their stronghold was Dundarave castle. In 1878 the chief was restored as Sir Francis MacNaughton of Dunderawe of Bushmills in Ireland. Logan recorded the sett in his book, 'The Scottish Gael' in 1831.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- (1831) — MacNaughton Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — MacNaughton (Logan) (register-of-tartans, record)
MacNaughtons once were found in Lochawe, Glenaray, Loch Fyne and Glenshira. Their stronghold was Dundarave castle. In 1878 the chief was restored as Sir Francis MacNaughton of Dunderawe of Bushmills in Ireland. Logan recorded the sett in his book, 'The Scottish Gael' in 1831 / MacGregor-Hastie collection is in the Scottiah Tartans Society archive.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- (1831) (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 2675
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 404
Thread count
DB/10 R34 DG32 K20 DB20 R34 DB/10
One full sett is 300 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s7/db5r17dg16k10db10r17db5~x2/