MacDonald of Clanranald #3
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 BRBRBRKWGRGRG.
Part of the MacDonald of Clanranald D tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2354
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1850 This is the count from the Lord Lyons records multiplied by four. It corresponds to the sett given by A. and W. Smith in 'The Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland' (1850) and in the work of J.Grant (1886). The tartan is distinguished by the two white lines. There is a certified example in the Highland Society of London collection.
5 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1819 — MacDonald of Clanranald #3 (register-of-tartans, record)
This is the count from the Register of the Court of the Lord Lyon, multiplied by four. It corresponds to the sett given by A and W Smith in 'The Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland' (1850) and in the work of J Grant (1886). The tartan is distinguished by the two white lines. There is a certified example in the Highland Society of London collection. - 1819 — MacDonald of Clanranald - 1819 (Clan (tartans-authority, record)
This is based on the the count entered into Lord Lyon's records on 11th October 1946. (B/12 R4 B4 R6 B24 R4 K22 W4 G22 R6 G4 R4 G/12). Another count (G/32 R4 G8 R12 G48 W4 K22 R4 B48 R6 B4 R4 B/32) differs appreciably in proportions from that count (with no reason given) and gives a much finer sett albeit a huge one of about 12 inches. . There is a certified example in the Highland Society of London collection which - confusingly - is different from this entry! The Smiths in their 1850 publication had this to say: "The MacDonell of Glengarry differs very litle from the Clanranald, and we had some little difficulty in ascertaining the respective Tartans of each family; but at last we obtained a specimen from a gentleman who had it from Miss MacDonell of Glengarry, which removed the doubts, and enabled us to assign to each its proper Tartan." - 1850 — MacDonald of Clanranald Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — MacDonald of Clanranald 4 (weddslist, record)
- undated — MacDonald of Clanranald D (weddslist, record)
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
- 1819 (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: 2354
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 427
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 427
Thread count
DB/12 R4 DB4 R6 DB24 R4 K22 W4 G22 R6 G4 R4 G/12
One full sett is 232 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 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/s13/db6r2db2r3db12r2k11w2g11r3g2r2g6~x2/