MacConnell
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 BGBWGBGBGY.
Part of the MacConnell tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2320
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1989 — MacConnell (register-of-tartans, record)
Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Johnston Collection which states 'from Margaret McConnel of Highland Heritage (USA). Based on MacDonald Hunting without the black. For use by the McConnells in addition to the MacDonald. - 1989 — MacConnell (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Sample in STA Johnston Collection which states 'from Margaret McConnel of Highland Heritage (USA). Based on MacDonald Hunting without the black. For use by the McConnells in addition to the MacDonald.
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
- 1989 (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: 2320
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 141
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 141
Thread count
DB/40 DG12 DB12 LB4 DG40 DR16 DG12 DR8 DG20 LR/6
One full sett is 294 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
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/s10/db20dg6db6lb2dg20dr8dg6dr4dg10lr3~x2/