MacBean MacVean
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 GWRRRGRRRWKGKWBBWWWBBWR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 23 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2293
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: 2293
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 925
Thread count
R/64 W4 DB4 DBi4 LB4 W4 LB4 DBi4 DB4 W4 K4 G18 K4 W4 Ri6 R6 Rii6 G4 Rii6 R6 Ri6 W4 G/12
One full sett is 296 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C4084 #2C4084 | oklch(39.4% 0.117 268.3) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #080848 #080848 | oklch(20.2% 0.112 270.4) |
| R | #781C38 #781C38 | oklch(38.7% 0.127 7.4) |
| R | #960000 #960000 | oklch(42.3% 0.173 29.2) |
| 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/s23/r32w2db2dbi2lb2w2lb2dbi2db2w2k2g9k2w2ri3r3rii3g2rii3r3ri3w2g6x2db0804274-dbi1605267-ri1505012-rii1707033/