MacDuff #6
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 RBKGRKR.
Part of the MacDuff tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2418
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1819 — MacDuff #6 (register-of-tartans, record)
Scottish Tartans Society notes: In early sources there are many small variations of this design, particularly in the shades and width of the red and blue bands. W and A Smith in their 1850 'Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland' give this sett and say 'Our authority for this Tartan is 'use and wont'. It is universally worn in the North as MacDuff, it has always been known by the 'Trade' as such; and upon a late occasion, when, in honour of Her Majesty, there was one of those grand fetes given at Braemar, called a 'Gathering,' the numerous retainers of General Duff and many others were attired in this Tartan.' - undated — MacDuff (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
- 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: 2418
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2455
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2455
Thread count
R/72 DB18 K24 G34 R20 K6 R/20
One full sett is 296 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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 1.29 — 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/s7/r36db9k12g17r10k3r10~x2/