MacDonald of Staffa 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 RBRBRKGRGRGRGWGRWRBRGRGRKGKRGRGRGRGRGRBR.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 40 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1387
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1819 Reduced by 60% for display. Until recently the various branches of the Clan Donald were regarded as independant clans in their own right. In 1947 the Mac Dhomnuill was re-instated by Lord Lyon.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1819 — MacDonald of Staffa Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — MacDonald of Staffa (register-of-tartans, record)
Reduced by 60% for display. Until recently the various branches of the Clan Donald were regarded as independent clans in their own right. In 1947 the Mac Dhomnuill was re-instated by Lord Lyon. Wilsons of Bannockburn a weaving firm founded c1770 near Stirling. The Pattern books are in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh. Copys of the Pattern books and letters in the Scottish Tartans Society archive. - undated — MacDonald of Staffa 6 (weddslist, record)
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
- 1819 (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: 2368
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1387
Thread count
R/24 DB4 R22 G4 R4 G4 R4 G4 R4 G4 R20 G4 R4 K2 G22 K2 R4 G4 R22 G4 R4 DB22 R21 W4 R21 G19 W2 G19 R5 G4 R22 G4 R5 G4 K4 R5 DB4 R5 DB4 R/19
One full sett is 683 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) |
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/s40/r24db4r22g4r4g4r4g4r4g4r20g4r4k2g22k2r4g4r22g4r4db22r21w4r21g19w2g19r5g4r22g4r5g4k4r5db4r5db4r19/