MacLeod of Skye (Johnston)
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 BKBKBKGKGKGKBR.
Part of the MacLeod of Skye 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=2642
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1906 — MacLeod of Skye (Johnston) (register-of-tartans, record)
Documented in the W & A K Johnston 1906 book where it is given this name. It is essentially the same as M'Bean's MacLeod of Gesto (#280, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) but the black guards have moved from the red to the yellow stripe. In the 1906 version the two sets of black tramlines on the blue are much nearer the centre of the band. SINDEX notes state: 'Baillie used for the Loyal Inverness Fencibles, commanded in 1795 by Col. Baillie of Dunain who died in 1797. - J. MacKinlay. To confuse the issue there is a further note: 'It appears under this name in Wilson's records of 1819 but with black guard lines to the red.' - 1906 — MacLeod of Skye (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Documented in the W & A K Johnston 1906 book where it is given this name. It is essentially the same as M'Bean's MacLeod of Gesto (#280) but the black guards have moved from the red to the yellow stripe. In the 1906 version the two sets of black tramlines on the blue are much nearer the centre of the band. SINDEX notes state: "Baillie used for the Loyal Inverness Fencibles, commanded in 1795 by Col. Baillie of Dunain who died in 1797. - J. MacKinlay. To confuse the issue there is a further note: "It appears under this name in Wilson's records of 1819 but with black guard lines to the red."
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
- 1906 (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: 2642
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 263
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 263
Thread count
T/36 K4 T4 K4 T4 K28 G32 K4 Y8 K4 G32 K28 T32 R/8
One full sett is 412 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| 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) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/t9k1t1k1t1k7g8k1y2k1g8k7t8r2~x4/