MacDonald, Flora (Artefact)
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 BKBKBKBWBKBRBKGRGRGKYKGRGRGKBKBKB.
Part of the MacDonald, Flora tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 33 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=217
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
- 1819? (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 Tartans Authority (ITI): 217
Thread count
T/48 K8 T8 K8 T8 K44 T48 W12 T48 K44 T36 R48 T36 K44 G28 R8 G8 R8 G16 K2 LY12 K2 G16 R8 G8 R8 G28 K44 T8 K8 T8 K8 T/48
One full sett is 1336 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.30 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/s33/t24k4t4k4t4k22t24w6t24k22t18r24t18k22g14r4g4r4g8k1ly6k1g8r4g4r4g14k22t4k4t4k4t24~x2/