MacLaine of Lochbuie (Coburn)
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 GWGR.
Part of the MacLaine of Lochbuie tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 4 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2591
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1810 — MacLaine of Lochbuie (Coburn) (register-of-tartans, record)
Scottish Tartans Society notes: A sample of this distinctive and ancient tartan exists in the Cockburn Collection in the Mitchell Library in Glasgow dating before 1810 when the collection was made. It was first published by Grant in 1886. The MacLaines of Lochbuie challenged the right of chiefship for the Clan MacLean. The matter was settled by 'tanistry' and Duart was recognised as chief, even though Eachin Reganach was in fact the elder brother of Lachlan, the first chief of the MacLeans of Duart. - pre 1810 — MacLaine of Lochbuie (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
STS: A sample of this distinctive and ancient tartan exists in the Cockburn Collection in the Mitchell Library in Glasgow dating before 1810 when the collection was made. It was first published by Grant in 1886. The MacLaines of Lochbuie challenged the right of chiefship for the Clan MacLean. The matter was settled by 'tanistry' and Duart was recognised as chief, even though Eachin Reganach was in fact the elder brother of Lachlan, the first chief of the MacLeans of Duart.
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
- 1810 (this record)
- 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: 2591
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1462
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1462
Thread count
R/64 DG16 LB8 Y/2
One full sett is 114 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| 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/s4/r32dg8lb4y1~x2/