MacKellar
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 GWGYGWGKWKBW.
Part of the MacKellar 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=2514
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1964 — MacKellar (register-of-tartans, record)
Alison Stewart of the Scottish Tartans Information Centre [Scottish Tartans Society] in July 1964 notes that this sett was first found in the lists of Johnston & Ross about 1930, and that the white and yellow lines were incorporated to mark the fact that the clan was a sept of Clan Campbell. An un-named sample is preserved in the Scottish Tartans Society MacGregor-Hastie Collection. DC Stewart suggested that this might have been the version worn by the Scottish tenor Kenneth MacKellar who was very popular in the 1960s and 70s. - pre 1964 — MacKellar (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Note from Alison Stewart of the Scottish Tartans Information Centre in July 1964 said that this was first found in the lists of Johnston & Ross about 1930. It was suggested that the white and yellow lines were incorporated to mark the fact that the clan was a sept of Clan Campbell. D.C. Stewart suggested that this might have been the version worn by the Scottish tenor Kenneth MacKellar who was very popular in the 1960s and 70s. Compared to # 940 this version has an extra K28 between the blue and the azure.
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
- 1964 (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: 2514
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 939
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 939
Thread count
G/60 W6 G8 LY10 G8 W6 G12 K28 LB6 K28 DB36 W/8
One full sett is 364 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) |
| 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) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
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/g30w3g4ly5g4w3g6k14lb3k14db18w4~x2/