MacDougall Clan Tartan
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 RGRBRBRWRBRBRGRGBRBBRGRGRBW.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 27 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1519
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1815-16 The earliest reference to the MacDougall tartan is in the collection of the Highland Society of London where a sample exists, signed and sealed by the Clan Chief around 1815. The sett is a complex one and the nearest count to the present day day tartan comes from a sample in Paton's collection housed at the Scottish Tartans Museum, and dating to about 1830. The Highland Society also have a sample certified by the Chief MacDougall of MacDougall dated 1906, in their archives store at the Royal Caledonian School near London.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1815-16 — MacDougall Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- c1970 — MacDougall - 1970 (H of E) (tartans-authority, record)
This is the version woven by The House of Edgar and is an incorrect rendering of Logan's setting. Given a c1970 date to index it roughly in order. PEM Aug 10 - undated — MacDougall 9 (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1815-16 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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 Tartans Authority (ITI): 1519
Thread count
R/10 G20 R4 DB4 R60 DP6 R4 W2 R4 DP6 R60 DB4 R4 G20 R20 G20 DP8 R4 DP8 DB20 R8 G4 R8 G60 R4 DP6 W/2
One full sett is 748 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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/s27/r5g10r2db2r30dp3r2w1r2dp3r30db2r2g10r10g10dp4r2dp4db10r4g2r4g30r2dp3w1~x2/