MacDonald of Staffa #4
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 RGRGRGRGRKGRGRGRBRWRGWGRGRGRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 29 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2371
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- undated — MacDonald of Staffa #4 (register-of-tartans, record)
Thread count divided by six to fit display. This is normally a very large sett. Count from a piece of Plaid sent by Mrs Thompson of Cumbernauld, and owned by her grand father William Leishman of Condorrat, a weaver for himself and Paisley Paterson Looms c1840-50. - undated — MacDonald of Staffa 3 (weddslist, record)
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: 2371
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1530
Thread count
R/37 G2 R2 G2 R2 G2 R2 G2 R11 K2 G11 R3 G2 R11 G2 R3 DB9 R11 W2 R9 G11 W2 G11 R3 G2 R9 G2 R19 W/2
One full sett is 337 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) |
| 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/s29/r37g2r2g2r2g2r2g2r11k2g11r3g2r11g2r3db9r11w2r9g11w2g11r3g2r9g2r19w2/