McShane (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 GWGKGYWR.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2904

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/01/2002 — McShane (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
    Design by Capt. J. Johnson, President of the McShane Family Association. This was called MacAne but it is assumed that was a typograhical error.
  • pre 2002 — McShane (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
    Design by Capt. J. Johnson, President of the McShane Family Association. This was called MacAne but it is assumed that was a typograhical error. 6th May 2010 - Phil Smith advises this is for all of the name.
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
2002 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

G/36 LB8 G36 K8 DY56 LY16 LB8 R/8

One full sett is 308 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
DY#604000 #604000oklch(39.8% 0.083 76.8)
LY#E8C000 #E8C000oklch(81.9% 0.168 93.7)

Sample pattern

G/36 LB8 G36 K8 DY56 LY16 LB8 R/8 tartan

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.

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