MacDonald of Boisdale
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 RYBYRGGGRGGGRYBYRYBYR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 21 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2350
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1800 — MacDonald of Boisdale (register-of-tartans, record)
The sample in Cockburn Collection is from Wilsons of Bannockburn and can probably be dated 1800-1810. A sample is also in Highland Society of London Collection. It is recorded as no.118 in DC Stewart's 'The Setts of the Scottish Clans' (xxxx). - 1800-1810 — MacDonald of Boisdale (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
The sample in Cockburn Collection is a Wilsons' piece therefore, a date of 1800-1810 is not unreasonable. Sample also in Highland Society of London Collection. No 118 in D.C. Stewart's 'The Setts . . . '.
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
- 1800 (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: 2350
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1668
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1668
Thread count
R/32 LR2 DB14 LR2 R12 LR2 DB68 LR2 R52 G2 DG32 G2 R8 G2 DG14 G2 R8 LR2 DB14 LR2 R/32
One full sett is 548 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #289C18 #289C18 | oklch(60.6% 0.191 141.6) |
| DG | #006818 #006818 | oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
| 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/r16lr1db7lr1r6lr1db34lr1r26g1dg16g1r4g1dg7g1r4lr1db7lr1r16x2g2408144-dg1806142/