MacDonald, Lord of the Isles Hunting
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 GWGWGWGWGWGWG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2378
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1950 — MacDonald, Lord of the Isles Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
From the original portrait hung in Armadale Castle, Skye dating from about 1765. The blue green version is worn by Godfrey Macdonald, High Chief of the Macdonalds. This matches D W Stewart's woven silk sample in 'Tartans Old and Rare'. The tartan warn by Edward VIII and his father as Lord of the Isles and presently Prince Charles. (1997) Scottish Tartans Societ archive. - 1950 — MacDonald, Lord of the Isles Htg #2 (tartans-authority, record)
HRH Prince Charles holds the title Lord of the Isles and is often to be seen in this tartan when he visits Scotland. . Commercially it will appear in darker colours of green than those worn by the Prince. This tartan was also worn by Edward VIII (Duke of Windsor) and his father. A 1937 pattern book calls this 'Lady MacDonald.' The count taken from a woven piece is different: G/78 W3 G6 W6 DG6 W3 DG40 W3 DG6 W6 DG6 W3 DG40
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
- 1950 (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: 2378
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2209
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2209
Thread count
G/48 W2 G4 W4 DG4 W2 DG24 W2 DG4 W4 DG4 W2 DG/24
One full sett is 184 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| 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/g24w1g2w2dg2w1dg12w1dg2w2dg2w1dg12~x2/