MacNiven
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 GGBBWBWBW.
Part of the MacNiven tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2693
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1988 — MacNiven (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Frank Cannonito and Kenny R Dalgleish. Based in part on the MacNaughton of which the MacNivens are a Sept. The name in Mr Cannonito's family was spelt, MacKniffen. Other members of the family have dropped the 'Mac' since arriving in America in 1650. This clan tartan was accredited by the Scottish Tartans Society in 1988. Frank and/or his wife also designed the California MacLeod. - pre 1988 — MacNiven (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Frank Cannonito and Kenny R Dalgleish. Based in part on the MacNaughton of which the MacNivens are a Sept. The name in Mr Cannonito's family was spelt, MacKniffen. Other members of the family have dropped the 'Mac' since arriving in America in 1650. This clan tartan was accredited by the Scottish Tartans Society in 1988. Frank and/or his wife also designed the California MacLeod.
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
- 1988 (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: 2693
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 752
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 752
Thread count
DG/36 G4 DB10 DR90 LB6 DB36 LB6 DR16 LBi/4
One full sett is 376 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| DG | #006818 #006818 | oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0) |
| G | #289C18 #289C18 | oklch(60.6% 0.191 141.6) |
| LB | #A8ACE8 #A8ACE8 | oklch(76.3% 0.086 281.2) |
| LB | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | oklch(80.8% 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/s9/dg18g2db5dr45lb3db18lb3dr8lbi2x2dg1806142-g2408144-lb3103284-lbi3200000/