MacKerrell of Hillhouse Dress Personal 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 GBBW.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 4 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=6041
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1996 This is the dress version of McKerrell of Hillhouse Hunting (#1758) and designed by Madam McKerrell of Hillhouse in 1996 and recorded in the Lyon Court Books (LCB 123) on 20th November 2001. As shown here, red is used in the warp in place of yellow. The McKerrell of Hillhouse Dress can be worn by all those with the name McKerrell and its spelling variations by seeking the permission of McKerrell of Hillhouse
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
- 1996 (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
W/8 N56 T96 Y/6
One full sett is 318 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #2888C4 #2888C4 | oklch(60.1% 0.125 241.5) |
| T | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | oklch(61.7% 0.067 235.0) |
| LG | #82D67A #82D67A | oklch(80.1% 0.150 142.2) |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DB | #202060 #202060 | oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LB | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | oklch(80.8% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 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/w4n28t48y3x2t2503227/