MacPherson #5
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 RKWRWKWKWKGGRWR.
Part of the MacPherson 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=2706
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1819 This eventually became known as 'Clan MacPherson'
6 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1819 — MacPherson #5 (register-of-tartans, record)
Wilsons No 43. Same as Kidd (STR #1957). - 1819 — MacPherson (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Wilsons No 43. Same as Kidd 1409. STS record also says it is Caledonia but it's not exactly the same - just very similar. Sample in STA's Scarlett Collection. - 1819 — Kidd Wilson's No 43 or.. Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 1819 — MacPherson (Caledonia) Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Kidd, Wilson's No 43 (weddslist, record)
- undated — MacPherson, Wilson's No 43 (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
- 1819 (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: 2706
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1410
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1410
Thread count
R/36 LB10 R36 G48 Y6 K38 LB20 K6 LB6 K6 LB20 R36 W8 K10 R/10
One full sett is 546 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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) |
| 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/r18lb5r18g24y3k19lb10k3lb3k3lb10r18w4k5r5~x2/