MacLintock
Bands: GRGRBRBRBRBR · Stripes: G R G R DB R T R DB R DB R G R G R DB R T R DB R DB R
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2649
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2649
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 881
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 881
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
G/76 R6 G6 R6 DB18 R6 B4 R80 DB6 R6 DB4 R/12

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | B #2A418A | 0.23 |
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | B #2A418A | 0.14 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacLintock - 1880 (Clan) — ΔT 0.10
- Grant and Drummond — ΔT 0.71
- Chisholm — ΔT 0.80
- Stewart of Appin - 1906 — ΔT 0.82
- Crieff District Tartan Tartan Number: 1636. Earliest known date: 1793 Wilson's accounts of 1793 mention the Crieff tartan with no details. A manuscript dated 1800 gives details of colour but it is not until the publication of the Key Pattern Book of 1819 that this sett is revealed in full. Crieff in Perthshire was the most famous of the cattle drovers 'trysts' prior to 1700. It is a very large sett which has been proportionately reduced for this illustration. The full threadcount: Light Red 4, Red 12, Green 8, R 140, G 8, R 4, Purple 42, R 4, G 170, R 4, G 8, R 12, LR 4. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.83
- MacDonald of Glenaladale — ΔT 0.83
- Cruikshank (Name) — ΔT 0.85
- Unidentified Cant #12 — ΔT 0.86
- Hayes (Fashion) — ΔT 0.87
- Stewart of Appin — ΔT 0.90
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
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