Timespan (MacKay) Corporate 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 BRKRG.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 5 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1002
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1989 Based on MacKay of Strathnaver for 'Timespan Heritage Centre' at Helmsdale
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1989 — Timespan (MacKay) Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/2002 — Timespan (register-of-tartans, record)
Based on MacKay of Strathnaver designed for 'Timespan Heritage Centre' at Helmsdale, Sutherland, The centre opened for the 1989 season. - pre 2002 — Timespan (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Based on MacKay of Strathnaver for 'Timespan Heritage Centre' at Helmsdale - a museum and arts centre linking culture, heritage, the arts, people and their ideas. Situated in the centre of Helmsdale, Sutherland - the largest, but least populated, area of the Highlands. It comprises an award winning museum, art gallery, Story Telling Room, riverside cafe shop and riverside garden of Scottish herbs and flowers. - undated — Timespan, (MacKay) (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
- 1989 (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: 4127
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1002
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1002
Thread count
N/36 R6 K36 R6 G/36
One full sett is 168 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 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/s5/n6r1k6r1g6~x6/