MacFadzean/MacPhedran
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 GBWKGRG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2431
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1945 — MacFadzean/MacPhedran (register-of-tartans, record)
This threadcount is taken from a MacKinlay strip by J Cant (who collected tartans between the wars). The Scottish Tartans Society entry says this is also known as MacPhedran, which is supported by the 1880 publication, Clans Originaux. The Scottish Tartans Authority sample was woven in 1964 for Dr N T McPhedran, Canada. - pre 1945 — MacFadzean/MacPhedran (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
This is from a MacKinlay strip from J Cant - he was a collector of tartans from the period between the wars. He drew out the patterns on strips of paper defining the warp with coloured pencils. STS entry says this is also known as MacPhedran. This agrees with the fact that this is in the 1880 Clans Originaux as MacPhedran. An internet search produced one example of MacPhedran (2.11.02). STA sample was woven in 1964 for a Dr. N.T.McPhedran of Canada. Other counts do exist but they are all within reasonable limits of this one. A Neil MacPhedran said (Nov. 2003) that the blue should be azure and that version had been 'in use for 100 years or so.'
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
- 1945 (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: 2431
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 744
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 744
Thread count
G/12 DB48 W4 K48 G52 R8 G/8
One full sett is 340 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) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/g3db12w1k12g13r2g2~x4/