MacBean Dress
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 GWRBGBRWGWWWWWKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 16 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2292
Provenance
Earliest known date: after 1972 Sample from the MacBean Clan Society of North America. The design is almost identical to James Scarlett's Meta MacBean 1220. with the addition of black guards and the replacing with red, of a black line on alternate white bands.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1972 — MacBean Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
The design is very similar to the Meta MacBean, with the addition of black guards and the replacing a black line on alternate white bands with red. - after 1972 — MacBean Dress (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Sample from Clan Society of North America. The design is almost identical to James Scarlett's Meta MacBean # 1220. with the addition of black guards and the replacing with red, of a black line on alternate white bands. - undated — MacBean dress (weddslist, record)
- undated — MacBean Dress (Clan) 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
- 1972 (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: 2292
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2415
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2415
Thread count
G/20 W8 R8 DR8 G4 DR8 R8 W8 G20 W8 LB8 W4 LB8 W46 K4 R/4
One full sett is 324 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| 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/s16/g10w4r4dr4g2dr4r4w4g10w4lb4w2lb4w23k2r2~x2/