MacRae The Princes Own 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 GRGRKRKRKRKRKRKRWRBRBRWRGRGRGRGRGGGRGW.
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=982
Provenance
Earliest known date: c.1815 Two MacRae setts, of which this is one, are contained in the Highland Society collection and presumably sealed by the Chief around 1815. Unless he recognised both, perhaps one is the clan and the other the Chief's own
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- c.1815 — MacRae The Princes Own Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — MacRae The Princes Own (register-of-tartans, record)
Two MacRae setts, of which this is one, are contained in the Highland Society (founded in 1815) collection and presumably sealed by the Chief around 1815. Unless he recognised both, perhaps one is the clan and the other the Chief's own.
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
- c.1815 (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 Register of Tartans: 2753
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 982
Thread count
G/58 R10 G56 R44 K4 R4 K8 R4 K4 R44 K4 R4 K8 R4 K4 R40 W4 R18 DB52 R10 DB56 R18 W4 R44 G6 R16 G6 R44 G16 R12 G16 R12 G10 Y6 G10 R14 G24 W/4
One full sett is 1342 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) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/g29r5g28r22k2r2k4r2k2r22k2r2k4r2k2r20w2r9db26r5db28r9w2r22g3r8g3r22g8r6g8r6g5y3g5r7g12w2~x2/