MacRae Red Clan Tartan
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 GRGRBRBRBRBRBRBRWRBR.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 20 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=885
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2003 Paton's 'Red MacRae' Alexander Macrae received the lands of Conchra and Ardachy in 1677 and became progenitor of the Macraes of Conchra. The Conchra tartan is blue and white.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 2003 — MacRae Red Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — MacRae of Conchra (register-of-tartans, record)
Paton's 'Red MacRae' Alexander Macrae received the lands of Conchra and Ardachy in 1677 and became progenitor of the Macraes of Conchra. MacGregor-Hastie collection is found in the Scottish Tartans Society archive. - undated — MacRae of Conchra (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- pre 2003 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 2748
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 885
Thread count
DG/20 R3 DG20 R20 DB3 R3 DB6 R3 DB3 R20 DB3 R3 DB6 R3 DB3 R20 W3 R4 DB20 R/4
One full sett is 316 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) |
| 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/s20/dg20r3dg20r20db3r3db6r3db3r20db3r3db6r3db3r20w3r4db20r4/