MacMaster (Name 2001)
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 BGKBKBKGBBGBGBGYBYGBGBGBGWGB.
Part of the MacMaster tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 28 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3492
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 2001 — MacMaster (Name 2001) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. This would appear to have the strongest claim to being a tartan for all Macmasters having been designed under the auspices of the International Association of the Clan Macinnes - the "parent" clan for Macmasters. An asymmetric tartan designed by Blair Urquhart for David John MacMaster of Beamsville, Ontario, Canada. For use by all of the name regardless of spelling. Created to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the MacMaster families in Canada. The families emigrated from Moidart and settled in Craignish, Inverness Co, Cape Breton. A prime example - apparently - of separate entities designing a tartan for the same name unaware that one already exists! - undated — MacMaster (Canada) (register-of-tartans, record)
An asymmetric tartan designed by Blair Urquhart for David John MacMaster of Beamsville, Ontario, Canada. For use by all of the name regardless of spelling. Created to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the MacMaster families in Canada. The families emigrated from Moidart and settled in Craignish, Inverness Co, Cape Breton. A prime example of separate entities designing a tartan for the same name unaware that one already exists.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 2001 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5207
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3492
Thread count
DR/24 DG24 LB4 DG24 DR24 DG4 DR4 DG4 DR4 DG12 LO4 DR2 LO4 DG12 DR4 DG4 DR4 DG4 DR24 DB16 DG16 K4 DR8 K4 DR8 K4 DG16 DB/16
One full sett is 524 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
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/s28/dr12dg12lb2dg12dr12dg2dr2dg2dr2dg6lo2dr1lo2dg6dr2dg2dr2dg2dr12db8dg8k2dr4k2dr4k2dg8db8~x2/