MacKenzie Dress
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 RBKGKWKGKWWWWW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2524
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — MacKenzie Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
Threadcount recorded by James Cant MA (died 1960). Also included in DC Dalgiesh's dance tartans. Lochcarron produce this with black lines on the white instead of azure or blue as used in most cases. - pre 2002 — MacKenzie Dress - 1950 (Cant) (tartans-authority, record)
From James Cant MA (d1960). Also included in D C Dalgiesh's Dance tartans. Lochcarron produce this with black lines on the white instead of azure or blue as used in most cases. Confusion arises when some weavers seem to produce this with black guards to the red, others leave them out. - undated — Land's End (Unnamed Maroon) (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
A Family tartan. - undated — MacKenzie, dress (weddslist, record)
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
- 2002 (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: 5364
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1362
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 3067
Thread count
W/6 LB4 W14 LB4 W4 K14 G16 K2 W4 K2 G16 K14 DB14 R/4
One full sett is 226 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) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/w3lb2w7lb2w2k7g8k1w2k1g8k7db7r2~x2/