MacLeod
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 KRKRKRKRKRKRKRKRKRKRK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 21 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2626
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- undated — MacLeod (register-of-tartans, record)
Norman 22nd of MacLeod, who was MP for Inverness and voted against the Disarming Act of 1746, chose to be painted by Ramsay in tartan although the act made its wearing illegal. Ramsay painted the composition, face and hands, and the costume was added by Van Haecken from an 11 yard bolt of fabric ordered by MacLeod from Skye in 1747. The same fabric was also used by Van Haecken for portraits by Ramsay of John Campbell 4th Earl of Loudoun and of Sir Francis Charteris with his sister. - undated — MacLeod (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
- 2017-01-06 (dataset default)
- 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: 2626
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1173
Thread count
K/6 R4 K2 R12 K48 R12 K2 R2 K6 R4 K2 R64 K48 R12 K12 R64 K48 R32 K12 R8 K/4
One full sett is 798 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s21/k3r2k1r6k24r6k1r1k3r2k1r32k24r6k6r32k24r16k6r4k2~x2/