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 RWBWRBGBRBGBRWBWRWBWR.
Part of the MacDonald of Boisdale tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from weddslist. It is a 21 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.weddslist.com/cgi-bin/tartans/pg.pl?source=sts
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Weddslist
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/weddslist/data.csv
- data date
- 2016-11-17 (dataset default)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Weddslist
the living privately compiled reference - 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
Thread count
R/32 W2 DB12 W2 R12 W2 DB64 W2 R48 B2 G32 B2 R8 B2 G12 B2 R8 W2 DB12 W2 R/32
One full sett is 520 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| B | #466CC8 #466CC8 | oklch(55.1% 0.149 265.0) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| 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/s21/r16w1db6w1r6w1db32w1r24b1g16b1r4b1g6b1r4w1db6w1r16~x2/