McGillivray, Pauline (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 BWWWGWBWWWBWW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2443
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1983 — McGillivray, Pauline (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Jamie Scarlett MBE for Pauline McGillivray in recognition of her work as joint Editor of the Clan Chattan Journal on the occasion of the Jubilee celebrations of the Clan Association in 1983. It is based on the Clan MacGillivray sett, with white replacing red. Jamie Scarlett MBE wove a stole for Pauline, measuring 108 x 27 inches. - 1983 — MacGillivray - 1983 (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Jamie Scarlett MBE in recognition of work put in by Pauline MacGillivray (joint Editor of the Clan Chattan Journal) on the occasion of the Jubilee celebrations of the Clan Association in 1983. It is in fact the Clan MacGillivrary as at #446 with white replacing red. JDS wove a stole for 108 x 27 inches. A woven sample was acquired from the Tony Murray archive in 2014 with a very different count: W/10 A2 P2 W20 A4 W2 P8 W20 G16 W4 A4 W2 A/6.
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
- 1983 (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: 2443
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6367
Thread count
W/12 LB2 DB2 W114 LB4 W4 DB46 W8 G60 W12 LB2 W12 DB/4
One full sett is 548 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) |
| 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/w6lb1db1w57lb2w2db23w4g30w6lb1w6db2~x2/