Drummond of Megginch - 1820 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 RBRBRWRBRGRGRBR.
Part of the Drummond of Megginch tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from research. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://tartandictionary.org/posts/drummondsofmegginch/
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Our own research
- licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- captured
- 2025-11-01
Thread count
R/26 DB2 R6 DB6 R126 LB6 R6 DB38 R6 DG6 R6 DG130 R19 DB6 R/18
One full sett is 770 threads.
Palette
Palette (Tartan Register)
| Colour | Shade | Ref | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #000064 #000064 | DB6 | oklch(22.7% 0.158 264.1) |
| DG | #004C00 #004C00 | G12 | oklch(36.1% 0.123 142.5) |
| LB | #98C8E8 #98C8E8 | LB1 | oklch(81.0% 0.068 237.9) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R5 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.49 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/r26db2r6db6r126lb6r6db38r6dg6r6dg130r19db6r18~r2109032-db0906265-lb3203246-dg1405139/