MacNathair Sgianach
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 BRKG.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 4 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3497
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 2002 — MacNathair Sgianach (tartans-authority, record)
Recorded by Phil Smith at the McPherson Highland Games in Kansas in 1996. The heavilty tatooed biker who wore it in a kilt said the name was Gaelic for 'Son of the Dragon/Snake' apparently the name of his motorcycle club. Phil Smith noted 'bad Gaelic'. - undated — MacNathair Sgianach (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Recorded by Phil Smith at the McPherson Highland Games in Kansas in 1996. The heavily tattooed biker who wore it in a kilt said the name was Gaelic for 'Son of the Dragon/Snake'. Apparently the name of his motorcycle club.
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
- pre 2002 (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: 5204
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3497
Thread count
DB/4 R4 K48 G/4
One full sett is 112 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) |
| 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/s4/db1r1k12g1~x4/