Henderson/MacKendrick
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 GKGKGBGBW.
Part of the Henderson 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=1685
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1842 — Henderson/MacKendrick (register-of-tartans, record)
In Gaelic, Henderson is MacEanruig - pronounced MacKendrick. Simlar to the Davidson tartan. Scottish Tartans Society states they they were both first recorded in 1906 by W. & A.K.Johnston but this tartan was first documented in Vestiarium Scoticum in 1842. - 1842 — Henderson (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
In Gaelic, Henderson is MacEanruig - pronounced MacKendrick. Simlar to the Davidson tartan. STS states they they were both first recorded in 1906 by W. & A.K.Johnston but this tartan was first documented in Vestiarium Scoticum in 1842. Conflicting note in Sinclair/Brown Scrapbooks states "Designed by or for Pipe Major Peter Henderson of Glasgow about 1870 in the belief that all Hendersons were Mackendricks of Glencoe."
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
- 1842 (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: 1685
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1762
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1762
Thread count
DY/4 K24 G16 K4 G64 DB4 G16 DB24 W/4
One full sett is 312 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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 0.02 — 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/s9/dy1k6g4k1g16db1g4db6w1~x4/