MacLagan of Glenquiech
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 GKRGKBRBRBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5771
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1856 — MacLagan of Glenquiech (register-of-tartans, record)
From the Baronage of Angus & Mearns 1856, Page 224 where the thread count is clearly recorded. For the purpose of this database, that count has been quadrupled which accounts for the odd-numbered threads. Glenquiech is a tiny settlement north north-east of Kirriemuir in the county of Angus. - pre 1856 — MacLagan of Glenquiech (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
From the Baronage of Angus & Mearns 1856, Page 224 where the thread count is clearly recorded. For the purpose of this database, that count has been quadrupled which accounts for the odd-numbered threads. Glenquiech is a tiny settlement north north-east of Kirriemuir in the county of Angus. This iappears to be based on Logan (#490) but no known reasons as to why.
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
- 1856 (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: 5771
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7813
Thread count
R/6 DB6 R3 DB3 R3 DB28 K21 G28 R21 K2 Y/4
One full sett is 240 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/r6db6r3db3r3db28k21g28r21k2y4/