MacCormick Festive
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 GBRBKWKBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2325
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/09/2007 — MacCormick Festive (register-of-tartans, record)
This is the second of two designs for use by the MacCormick's/McCormick's who are of Hebridean Scots lineage. It is meant to be distinct from the MacCormick Dress Tartan (STR #2323) which is an Irish Family/Clan tartan. A festive or celebratory tartan to compliment the other MacCormick design, to be worn on festive and solemn religious occasions (e.g. Christmas, Easter, all Sundays, weddings, christenings, anniversaries, birthdays, and other celebratory occasions). Can be worn by any person of Hebridean Scots lineage bearing the surname, McCormick or MacCormick. - September 2007 — MacCormick Festive? (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Listing. This is the second of two proposed designs for use by the MacCormick's/McCormick's who are of Hebridean Scots lineage. It is meant to be distinct from tartan 1091(MacCormick Dress Tartan) which is an Irish Family/Clan tartan. This proposed tartan is intended as a festive or celebratory tartan to compliment the other proposed design (K4G24K16B24Y4) and is meant to be worn on festive and solemn religious occasions (e.g. Christmas, Easter, all Sundays, weddings, christenings, anniveraries, birthdays, and other celebratory occasions). Can be worn by any person of Hebridean Scots lineage bearing the surname,McCormick or MacCormick.
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
- 01/09/2007 (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: 2325
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7295
Thread count
Y/6 DB48 R6 DB16 K2 LB32 K2 DB6 W/6
One full sett is 236 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/y3db24r3db8k1lb16k1db3w3~x2/