Mack Original (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 GRGKWKWKWKGWG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2495
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/02/2003 — Mack Original (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
A family tartan for the family of Mack. Apply to the designer, Paul Philip Mack, for permission to use. Permission is likely to be granted to those of the name of Mack providing the project is not commercial. - pre 2004 — Mack (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
A family tartan controled by the designer Paul Philip Mack. Use is likely to be granted to any with the name as long as the use of the design is not part of a commercial project. (Notes from old STWR website).
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
- 01/02/2003 (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: 2495
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6209
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2938
Thread count
G/4 R4 G42 K16 LB16 K4 LB56 K4 LB16 K16 G42 W4 G/4
One full sett is 448 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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/g2r2g21k8lb8k2lb28k2lb8k8g21w2g2~x2/