Allison (MacGregor-Hastie)
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 BKBKGGKGWKBRKG.
Part of the Allison tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=58
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1880 — Allison (MacGregor-Hastie) (register-of-tartans, record)
Threadcount taken from a sample in the MacGregor-Hastie collection of cloth samples held by the Scottish Tartans Society. This sett was first recorded in 'Clans Originaux' (1880). - 1880 — Allison (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
This sample comes from the MacGregor-Hastie collection which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. This sett was first seen in Clans Originaux in 1880. The customary sett for commercial production although the #673 from Lochcarron shows a red in place of the pink. A slight variation on this sett can be seen at Chafee of Glenmary. The woven sample in the STA Dalgety Collection is of #673 - presumably from Lochcarron since that matches their swatch.
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
- 1880 (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: 58
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 314
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 314
Thread count
DY/4 K6 R12 DB8 K34 W4 G32 K4 G32 DY4 K30 DBi32 K4 DBi/4
One full sett is 412 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| B | #466CC8 #466CC8 | oklch(55.1% 0.149 265.0) |
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | oklch(26.3% 0.162 277.1) |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s14/dy2k3r6db4k17w2g16k2g16dy2k15dbi16k2dbi2x2db1106275-dbi1406275/