MacLean of Duart #6
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 BWKGKWKGRWRK.
Part of the MacLean tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2610
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1815 — MacLean of Duart #6 (register-of-tartans, record)
In their 1850 book 'The Clan and Family Tartans of Scotland', W and A Smith of Mauchline wrote: 'This Tartan is sometimes woven with only one shade of blue, but this is done merely to save trouble; the oldest pattern which we have been able to procure has two shades of that colour, as we have given it.' Scottish Tartans Society entry: The pattern is recorded by W and A Smith in 1850 and by Grant in 1886. Logan (1831) gives a variation with a single azure stripe, but the earlier sample in the Cockburn Collection (1810-15) indicates that in this instance, Logan was wrong. There is a curious mathematical similarity with the Royal Stewart tartan in which the number of threads and the colours have been reversed. It suggests a common origin in design but no explanation can be given. - pre 1815 — MacLean of Duart (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
The difference between this and 377 is that 377 has a single azure flanked by black between the two yellows whereas this 2125 has blue, guarded by light blue, flanked by black. This version here (2125) is that woven by Lochcarron and others. In their 1850 book "The Clan and Family Tartans of Scotland" William and Andrew Smith of Mauchline wrote: "This Tartan is sometimes woven with only one shade of blue, but this is done merely to save trouble; the oldest pattern which we have been able to procure has two shades of that colour, as we have given it." STS entry: The pattern is recorded by W and A Smith in 1850 and by Grant in 1886. Logan (1831) gives a variation with a single azure stripe, but the earlier sample in the Cockburn Collection (1810-15) indicates that in this instance, Logan was wrong. There is a curious mathematical similarity with the Royal Stewart tartan in which the number of threads and the colours have been reversed. It suggests a common origin in design but no explanation can be given. Count here is from James Scarlett's "Tartan the Highland Textile" P132, entry 271.
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
- 1815 (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: 2610
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2125
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2125
Thread count
DB/16 LB4 K12 Y4 K4 W4 K4 G32 R48 LB4 R8 K/4
One full sett is 268 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s12/db4lb1k3y1k1w1k1g8r12lb1r2k1~x4/