MacLeod of Raasay (Highland Society of London)
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 KRKRK.
Part of the MacLeod of Raasay tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 5 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2641
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1845 — MacLeod of Raasay (Highland Society of London) (register-of-tartans, record)
Note from Genealogy site: The thread count given is from the Provost MacBean Collection sample, which is very similar to the sample in the collection of the Highland Society of London: K2 R18 K12 R2 K16. The design seems likely to be derived from the Vestiarium Scoticum, and would therefore be later than 1829. This is the MacLeod of Lewis sett (1272) with colour changes. - 1845 — MacLeod of Raasay (HSL) (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Note from Genealogy site: The thread count given is from the Provost MacBean Collection sample, which is very similar to to the sample in the collection of the Highland Society of London: K2 R18 K12 R2 K16. The design seems likely to be derived from the Vestiarium Scoticum, and would therefore be later than 1829. This is the MacLeod of Lewis sett (1272) with colour changes.
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
- 1845 (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: 2641
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1172
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1172
Thread count
K/26 R4 K26 R38 K/4
One full sett is 166 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| 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/s5/k13r2k13r19k2~x2/