MacLellan of Gartbreck (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 RBRBRKBKRKBW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7426
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- Dec 2007 — MacLellan of Gartbreck (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Kirsty Anderson from House of Edgar for her marriage to Robert McLellan and for the use of his family. Design based on Hebridean Granite (#6821) also designed by Kirsty. The ruby colour matches the bridesmaids' sashes and the greys used are marls which can't be show in this graphic. - undated — MacLellan of Gartbreck (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Kirsty Anderson from House of Edgar for her marriage to Robert McLellan and for the use of his family. Design based on Hebridean Granite (#6821, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) also designed by Kirsty. The ruby colour matches the bridesmaids' sashes and the greys used are marls which can't be shown in this graphic.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- Dec 2007 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5498
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7426
Thread count
W/6 N50 K4 O6 K6 N8 K10 O40 DR8 O8 DR6 O/6
One full sett is 304 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #5C5C5C #5C5C5C | oklch(47.5% 0.000 89.9) |
| O | #888888 #888888 | oklch(62.7% 0.000 89.9) |
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/o3dr3o4dr4o20k5n4k3o3k2n25w3x2o2500000-n1900000/