MacDonald, Sir John A
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 BKGWKBKBGBW.
Part of the MacDonald, Sir John A tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2379
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — MacDonald, Sir John A (register-of-tartans, record)
1815 - 1891. Born Glasgow. Played a pivotal role in bringing about the Canadian Confederation and realised his dream of a transcontinental railway. Canada's first Prime Minister. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection and Lochcarron swatch. "Canadian Founders", authentic clan tartans representing Canada's Founders, woven by West Coast Wollen Mills. Vancouver. Produced by Sainthill-Levine & Co. - pre 2002 — MacDonald, Sir John A (Comm) (tartans-authority, record)
1815 - 1891. Born Glasgow. Played a pivotal role in bringing about the Canadian Confederation and realised his dream of a transcontinental railway. Canada's first Prime Minister. Sample in STA Johnston Collection + Lochcarron swatch.
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
- 2002 (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: 2379
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1581
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1581
Thread count
DR/20 K6 DG4 W4 K44 B8 K44 DR8 DG8 DR28 W/6
One full sett is 334 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| B | #466CC8 #466CC8 | oklch(55.1% 0.149 265.0) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/dr10k3dg2w2k22b4k22dr4dg4dr14w3~x2/