O'Sullivan McCragh (Personal)
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 GRGYGRGBGBGBWBKBKBWBGBGBGBGBWBKBKBWBGBGBGRGYGR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 46 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3273
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- undated — O'Sullivan McCragh (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
O'Sullivan McCragh was designed by Chris Aitken for Geoffrey (Tailor) Highland Crafts Ltd. in June 1994. See also Sulivan at 3310. - Unknown — O'Sullivan McCragh (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
O'Sullivan McCragh was designed by Chris Aitken for Geoffrey (Tailor) Highland Crafts Ltd. in June 1994. See also Sulivan at 3310.
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: 3273
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2169
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2169
Thread count
G/32 R4 G8 LY4 G8 R4 G32 DB4 G6 DB4 G6 DB20 W4 N24 K4 N10 K4 N24 W4 DB20 G6 DB4 G6 DB4 G6 DB4 G6 DB20 W4 N24 K4 N10 K4 N24 W4 DB20 G6 DB4 G6 DB4 G32 R4 G8 LY4 G8 R/4
One full sett is 876 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| 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) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 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/s24/g16r2g4ly2g4r2g16db2g3db2g3db10w2n12k2n5k2n12w2db10g3db2g3db2~x2/