MacKintosh #6
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 BRKRGRBRGRKRKRKRKRGRBRGRGRBRBRBRKRGRBRBRK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 41 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2564
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- undated — MacKintosh #6 (register-of-tartans, record)
This is the count for the full size of the fragment at Moy Hall which James Scarlet MBE recorded in 1990. The selvedge is not displayed in full. There is every possibility that this is in fact a very large symmetrical sett, but the fragments are too small to be certain. It relates to the sett (STR #2563) shown by D W Stewart in 'Old and Rare Tartans' (1893), and documented by D C Stewart in 'The Setts of The Scottish Tartans' No:253 (1950). - undated — MacKintosh 5 (weddslist, record)
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
- 2017-01-06 (dataset default)
- 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: 2564
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1510
Thread count
DB/48 R40 K4 R4 G48 R54 DB46 R54 DG14 R4 K4 R4 K4 R48 K4 R4 K4 R4 DG14 R52 DB46 R54 DG60 R4 DG4 R48 DB4 R12 DB4 R4 DB4 R48 K4 R4 DG60 R48 DB4 R4 DB4 R4 K/7
One full sett is 1723 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| 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/s41/db48r40k4r4g48r54db46r54dg14r4k4r4k4r48k4r4k4r4dg14r52db46r54dg60r4dg4r48db4r12db4r4db4r48k4r4dg60r48db4r4db4r4k7/