MacGiboney/MacGibboney
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 KBWBKBKGKBKGWGK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2438
Provenance
Earliest known date: June 2000 Designed by the late Donald Suttie Smith of Heraldic Graphics, Glasgow for Greg McGibonney of Fremont CA - descendant of a Scottish family that moved to the USA via Ireland in the 1760s. It is found in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Highlands of Tennessee. The tartan may be used by anyone of the name or its variants.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/03/2000 — MacGiboney/MacGibboney (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Greg McGiboney from Fremont, California and the late Don Smith (2002) of Heraldic Graphics, Glasgow. May be worn by anyone of this name or its variants. Colours here are from the woven sample. MacGibboney website at http://www.mcgibboneyfamily.org. The name comes from a descendant of a Scottish family that moved to the USA via Ireland in the 1760s and is found in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and the Highlands of Tennessee. - June 2000 — McGibboney (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Greg McGiboney from Fremont, California and the late Don Smith of Heraldic Graphics, Glasgow. May be worn by anyone of this name or its variants. Colours here are from the woven sample. MacGibboney website at http://www.mcgibboneyfamily.org. The name comes from a descendant of a Scottish family that moved to the USA via Ireland in the 1760s and is found in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and the Highlands of Tennessee. - June 2000 — MacGibboney Clan/Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, 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
- 01/03/2000 (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: 2438
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2693
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2693
Thread count
K/4 DB8 W4 DB38 K4 N20 K2 Y4 K2 N20 K4 DG38 W4 DG8 K/4
One full sett is 320 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s15/k2dg4w2dg19k2n10k1y2k1n10k2db19w2db4k2~x2/