McMurchie Family, John and Jessie (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 GRBBGBGBBRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10149
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 26/01/2010 — McMurchie Family, John and Jessie (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
The John and Jessie McMurchie Family tartan was designed and woven to honour the strength, compassion and uncommon perseverance of John (1887-1961) and Jessie McMurchie (1895-1979)and their four daughters, Sarah, Margaret, Jacqueline and Elizabeth. The tartan was designed and woven by Sarah (McMurchie) Brown's grandson Mackenzie Frere in consultation with the four McMurchie sisters who chose the colours. Dark blue is a reminder of the ocean that John McMurchie crossed in 1908 to arrive in Canada. Purple symbolizes the amethyst, Jessie McMurchie's birth stone. Green represents John McMurchie's great love of the garden. The light blue and yellow that criss cross the tartan, signify the blue and sunny skies of Alberta. Red symbolises Canada. Each red square is divided into four: one for each of John and Jessie's daughters. The John & Jessie McMurchie Family tartan has been designed for the use of all descendants of John and Jessie McMurchie, in Canada and around the world. - 26th Jan. 2010 — McMurchie (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
The John and Jesse McMurchie Family tartan was designed and woven to honour the strength, compassion and uncommon perseverance of John (1887-1961) and Jesse McMurchie (1895-1979)and their four daughters, Sarah, Margaret, Jacqueline and Elizabeth. The tartan was designed and woven by Sarah (McMurchie) Brown's grandson Mackenzie Frere in consultation with the four McMurchie sisters who chose the colours. Dark blue is a reminder of the ocean that John McMurchie crossed in 1908 to arrive in Canada. Purple symbolizes the amethyst, Jesse McMurchie's birth stone. Green represents John McMurchie's great love of the garden. The light blue and yellow that criss cross the tartan, signify the blue and sunny skies of Alberta. Red symbolises Canada. Each red square is divided into four: one for each of John and Jesse's daughters. The John & Jesse McMurchie Family tartan has been designed for the use of all descendants of John and Jesse McMurchie, in Canada and around the world.
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
- 26/01/2010 (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: 10149
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10149
Thread count
Y/2 R26 DB12 DP14 G4 DP14 G4 DP14 DB12 R26 LB/2
One full sett is 256 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) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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/y1r13db6dp7g2dp7g2dp7db6r13lb1~x2/