Mackenzie
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 BKBKBKGKWKGKBKR.
Part of the MacKenzie tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2520
5 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1778 — Mackenzie (register-of-tartans, record)
Threadcount recorded by Kenneth F Mackenzie in the Public Register of all Arms and Bearings in Scotland, 37/127, 27 December 1949. The Mackenzie is the regimental tartan of the Seaforth Highlanders, who were raised by MacKenzie, Earl of Seaforth, in 1778. The clan held lands in Ross-shire and around Muir of Ord, but in the 12th century, they were removed to Wester Ross, (Kintail). The chiefly line of Kintail died out (as prophesised by the Brahan Seer) and the MacKenzies of Cromarty were recognised as Chiefs of the Clan. Wilson's 1819 pattern book records various widths and weights of cloth suitable for the different ranks in the regiment. In 'The Clan and Family Tartans of Scotland' (1850), W and A Smith of Mauchline wrote: 'Both the 71st and 78th Regiments now wear the Tartan common to the MacLeods and the MacKenzies.' This sett is also recorded in Clans Originaux (1880). - 01/01/1819 — MacKenzie Hunting (Green) (register-of-tartans, record)
Called Muted green on the Clan Mackenzie (UK) website and considered a Hunting tartan. - undated — MacKenzie (weddslist, record)
- undated — MacKenzie, Seaforth (weddslist, record)
- undated — MacKenzie (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
- 1778 (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: 2529
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5906
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 267
Thread count
DB/24 K4 DB4 K4 DB4 K24 G24 K2 W4 K2 G24 K24 DB24 K2 R/4
One full sett is 320 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| 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/s15/db12k2db2k2db2k12g12k1w2k1g12k12db12k1r2~x2/