MacPherson (Crubin Plaid)
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 GRYRKGYRKRYGWKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2711
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1800 — MacPherson (Crubin Plaid) (register-of-tartans, record)
Examined by D C Stewart in 1947. It is suspected that this is Wilson's Macintosh Old or New from the 1819 pattern book. Thread count halved to show whole sett. - 1800 — MacPherson (Crubin Plaid) (tartans-authority, record)
Examined by DCS in 1947. It is suspected that this is Wilsons Macintosh Old or New from the 1819 pattern book. Thread count halved to show whole sett.
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: 2711
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 588
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 588
Thread count
R/320 K4 W2 DG72 LY18 R8 K2 R8 LY18 Y72 K18 R18 LY18 R8 Y/6
One full sett is 858 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
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/r160k2w1dg36ly9r4k1r4ly9y36k9r9ly9r4y3~x2/