MacDonald of Belfinlay
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 KGRGRGRGRK.
Part of the MacDonald of Belfinlay 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=2357
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1914 — MacDonald of Belfinlay (register-of-tartans, record)
From D.C. Dalgliesh. Also appears in Peter MacDonald swatch files. From MacKay's 1914 'The Romantic Story of Highland Garb'. Also named MacDonnell of Clan Ranald Ancient and said to be from Cockburn Collection 1815. Note on modern sample also adds 'John MacDonald, High Commissioner Clan Donald' suggesting that either the sample or the information was from him. - 1914 — MacDonald of Clanranald - 1914 (tartans-authority, record)
From D C Dalgliesh. also appears in Peter MacDonald swatch files. From MacKay's 1914 'The Romantic Story of Highland Garb'. Also named MacDonnell of Clan Ranald Ancient and said to be from Cockburn Collection 1815. Note on modern sample also adds "John MacDonald, High Commissioner Clan Donald" suggesting that either the sampke or the information was from him.
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
- 1914 (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: 2357
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4559
Thread count
K/16 G8 R8 G6 R64 G6 R8 G6 R8 K/8
One full sett is 252 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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
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