MacLeods Highlanders
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 BRWRWKGKWKGKBKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2648
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1800 There is a strong similarity to the Pipers plaids of the 92th Regiment where the stripe is yellow.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1800 — MacLeods Highlanders (register-of-tartans, record)
Threadcount taken from a Wilsons of Bannockburn pattern book. William Wilsons was a weaving firm founded c1770 at Bannockburn near Stirling. The pattern books are held by National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh. Copies of the pattern books and correspondence are in the Scottish Tartans Society archive. See also 92nd Drummers' Plaid at STR #283. - 1800 — MacLeods Highlanders (tartans-authority, record)
See also 92nd Drummers' Plaid @ #359. - 1800 — MacLeod's Highlanders Regimental Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — MacLeod's Highlanders (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
- 1800 (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: 2648
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 581
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 581
Thread count
DB/24 R4 W4 R4 W4 K24 G22 K4 W4 K4 G22 K24 DB22 K4 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/db12r2w2r2w2k12g11k2w2k2g11k12db11k2r2~x2/