MacDonald of Dunyveg Family Tartan
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 BBBRBRKGRGBG.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=36
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1992 Designed by Captain V.J. MacDonald-Evans for himself and future Lairds of Denovan, regardless of their name. In 2009 Lord Denovan removed the restriction, to allow all Denovan's to wear it with the tartan to be called simply Denovan (rather than Lairds of Denovan). In 2010 Lord Denovan further suggested this tartan for all of the MacDonald's of Dunyveg.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1992 — MacDonald of Dunyveg Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/2002 — Denovan, The Lairdship of (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Captain V.J. MacDonald-Evans for himself and future Lairds of Denovan, regardless of their name. Denovan is close to the town of Denny, near Falkirk in central Scotland. This tartan may be worn by all persons bearing the surnames Denovan or Evans and members of the Household & Family Society may also wear the tartan on application to The Laird of Denovan. - pre 2002 — MacDonald of Denovan (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Captain V.J. MacDonald-Evans for himself and future Lairds of Denovan, regardless of their name. Denovan is close to the town of Denny, near Falkirk in central Scotland. Restrictions removed and is the tartan for all of the surnames EVANS, MacDonald (Clan Ian Vor) and/or DENOVAN. Officers of the Household are also authorised to wear the Tartan. - undated — Denovan, The Lairdship of.. (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1992 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 916
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 36
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 36
Thread count
DB/20 DP4 DB6 R8 DB28 R4 K28 G28 R8 G6 DP4 G/20
One full sett is 288 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) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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/s12/db10dp2db3r4db14r2k14g14r4g3dp2g10~x2/