Kinnoull (MacRae) Family 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 GRKRKRKRKRKRKRWRBRBRWRGRGRGRGRGGGRGWGW.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 38 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=983
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1819 Check thread count against Sindex.
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
- 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
- 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
Thread count
DG/48 R66 K4 R4 K10 R4 K4 R52 K4 R4 K10 R4 K4 R52 W6 R24 DB66 R14 DB66 R24 W6 R52 DG8 R24 DG8 R52 DG24 R16 DG24 R24 DG16 G14 DG16 R24 DG18 W6 DG32 W/4
One full sett is 1624 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #006818 #006818 | oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0) |
| G | #289C18 #289C18 | oklch(60.6% 0.191 141.6) |
| 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/s38/dg24r33k2r2k5r2k2r26k2r2k5r2k2r26w3r12db33r7db33r12w3r26dg4r12dg4r26dg12r8dg12r12dg8g7dg8r12dg9w3dg16w2x2dg1806142-g2408144/