MacDiarmid
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 KRKGKWKGR.
Part of the MacDiarmid 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=2329
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1906 — MacDiarmid (register-of-tartans, record)
MacDiarmids are a sept of Clan Campbell. The tartan was first published by W & A.K.Johnston in 1906, in 'The Tartans of the Clans and Septs of Scotland'. The author, H. Whyte, introduced many previously unrecorded tartans including 'Dress' and 'Hunting' tartans of both clans and septs of clans. This is the version woven by Lochcarron & House of Edgar (December 2004). - pre 1906 — MacDiarmid (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
MacDiarmids are a sept of Clan Campbell. The tartan was first published by W & A.K.Johnston in 1906, in 'The Tartans of the Clans and Septs of Scotland'. The author, H. Whyte, introduced many previously unrecorded tartans including 'Dress' and 'Hunting' tartans of both clans and septs of clans. The width of the red lines on black varies between weaver and can be from 10 threads to 26 threads.
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
- 1906 (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: 2329
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1180
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1180
Thread count
K/24 R4 K56 DG24 K2 W6 K2 DG24 R/8
One full sett is 268 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s9/k12r2k28dg12k1w3k1dg12r4~x2/