MacKillop Clan Tartan

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 GRKRWKRGRK.

Part of the MacKillop tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 10 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1001

Provenance

Earliest known date: pre 2003 The MacKillops are a Sept of MacDonald of Keppoch, whose tartan this sett closely resembles.

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • pre 2003 — MacKillop Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
  • undated — MacKillop (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
House of Tartan
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
data date
pre 2003 (this record)
licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. House of Tartan
    the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity
  2. 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
  3. this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
    each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources

Thread count

G/8 R8 K4 R40 LB2 K14 R4 G20 R6 K/4

One full sett is 208 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)

Sample pattern

G/8 R8 K4 R40 LB2 K14 R4 G20 R6 K/4 tartan

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 0.09 — 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 (top) woven against the master sett (bottom) this sett master sett ★
One weave of this sett against the master sett ★, split on the diagonal: a shared proportion runs seamlessly across it with only the shades shifting; a different proportion breaks on it.

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.

MacKillop (Scottish Tartan Society)Unidentified No 3 #2MacPherson of ClunyHannay Dress (Dance)MacDonald of Glenaladale - 1772 (ClaMacPhail Red Clan TartanMacPhailWilbers #2 (Personal)Harbor Club (Corporate)Barbecue Plaidgroundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s10/g4r4k2r20lb1k7r2g10r3k2~x2/

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