MacKintosh (Moy Hall) 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 RGRKRKR.
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=1509
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1821 The Setts No: 253. Of the same pattern as a fragment in the Moy Hall collection claimed to be a part of a kilt worn by Prince Charles at the time of the '45. Author and weaver, James Scarlet, has investigated further and has found at least four other piec
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1821 — MacKintosh (Moy Hall) Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — MacKintosh #5 (register-of-tartans, record)
The Setts No:253. Of the same pattern as a fragment in the Moy Hall collection claimed to be a part of a kilt worn by Prince Charles at the time of the '45. Author and weaver, James Scarlet MBE, has investigated further and has found at least four other pieces, at Blair Castle and at Inverness Museum. The tartan was woven in 1821 by J. Hilson & Son, Jedburgh, on the instructions of the owner of one of the pieces, and was intended to be an accurate reproduction. First published in Old & Rare Scottish Tartans, 1893. D.W. Stewart. - undated — MacKintosh 4 (weddslist, record)
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
- 1821 (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: 2563
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1509
Thread count
R/150 G24 R6 K4 R4 K4 R/72
One full sett is 306 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) |
| 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/r75g12r3k2r2k2r36~x2/