McBrayer Htg (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 BWBGWBKR.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 8 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3321

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • pre 2002 — McBrayer Htg (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
    This was originally a blanket sett that was restructured by tartan doyen Jamie Scarlett MBE for a Mrs McBrayer from Lochmaben (Madam May McKerrell of Hillhouse). The family was originally named MacBrair of Almagill & Netherwood.
  • undated — McBrayer (register-of-tartans, record)
    This was named MacBrair of Almagill & Netherwood but May McKerrel said it was originally a blanket sett and had now been adopted as the MacBrayer tartan.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
Scottish Tartans Authority
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
data date
pre 2002 (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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  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

O/200 K4 DR56 LB4 DG56 DR56 LB4 DR/8

One full sett is 568 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DR#55120C #55120Coklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3)
DG#053819 #053819oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
O#A65C11 #A65C11oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3)

Sample pattern

O/200 K4 DR56 LB4 DG56 DR56 LB4 DR/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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