MacRae of Conchra #3
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 GBWR.
Part of the MacRae of Conchra 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=2750
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1893 — MacRae of Conchra #3 (register-of-tartans, record)
Major John MacRae-Gilstrap of Otter Ferry furnished the following in 1904 re this tartan. 'When my great-great-grandfather, John MacRae of Conchra, Lochalsh, was on his way to Sherrifmuir from Kintail, some of his followers being without stockings, the occupants of a shieling in which some of them lodged, spent the night in cutting out stockings for them from a web of cloth which they had in the place. A piece of this web was in the possession of my grand-aunt Miss Flora MacRa (sic) of Ardintoul, from which she knitted the accompanying hose when a girl at the turn of the last century' (1880s). 'Unfortunately the original piece of cloth has been lost.' 'Old and Rare Scottish Tartans' (1893), contains a selection of forty five setts, woven in silk, of special interest or antiquity. Many of the illustrated tartans owe their present day popularity to the publication of this work. The author was D W Stewart. Today, Conchra is a tiny village 9 miles (14km) due east of Kyle of Lochalsh in the Scottish Highlands. - 1893 — MacRae of Conchra - 1893 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Major John MacRae-Gilstrap of Otter Ferry furnished the following in 1904 re this tartan. "When my great-great-grandfather, John MacRae of Conchra, Lochalsh, was on his way to Sherrifmuir from Kintail, some of his followers being without stockings, the occupants of a shieling in which some of them lodged, spent the night in cutting out stockings for them from a web of cloth which they had in the place. A piece of this web was in the possession of my grand-aunt Miss Flora MacRa (sic) of Ardintoul, from which she knitted the accompanying hose when a girl at the turn of the last century." (1880s) "Unfortunately the original piece of cloth has been lost." Conchra is a tiny village 9 miles (14km) due east of Kyle of Lochalsh in the Scottish Highlands. Sample in STA Collection.
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
- 1893 (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: 2750
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1683
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1683
Thread count
R/14 W72 DB72 Y/14
One full sett is 316 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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/s4/r7w36db36y7~x2/