MacLoughlin of Ardmarnoch (Personal)
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 GKGKGKRKGKG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2650
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1990 Mr Paul MacLoughlin described his reason for wanting a tartan of his own as, 'daughters with eccentric tastes'. This sett which is based on the Black Watch, has the red stripe from the MacLachlan. This is a private family tartan.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1990 — MacLoughlin of Ardmarnoch (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Dr Paul MacLoughlin described his reason for wanting a tartan of his own as, 'daughters with eccentric tastes'. This sett which is based on the Black Watch, has the red stripe from the MacLachlan. This is a private family tartan. - 1990 — MacLoughlin Ardmarnoch Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- pre 1999 — MacLoughlin of Ardmarnoch (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Mr Paul MacLoughlin described his reason for wanting a tartan of his own as, 'daughters with eccentric tastes'. This sett which is based on the Black Watch, has the red stripe from the MacLachlan. This is a private family tartan. - undated — MacLoughlin, Ardmarnoch (weddslist, record)
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
- 1990 (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: 2650
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2096
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2096
Thread count
DG/10 K4 DG4 K4 DG4 K24 R4 K24 DG12 K4 DG/4
One full sett is 182 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| 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
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/s11/dg5k2dg2k2dg2k12r2k12dg6k2dg2~x2/