MacDonald of Staffa #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 BBYBBGYGBYBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBYBGYGBBYBBY.
Part of the MacDonald of Staffa tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 54 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5020
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: 5020
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3295
Thread count
DR/34 DB2 LR20 DB2 DR8 G20 LR2 G22 DR22 LR4 DB20 G20 DR4 G2 DR22 G2 DR4 G22 DR20 G2 DR84 G2 DR4 G2 DR4 G2 DR84 G2 DR4 G2 DR4 G2 DR4 G2 DR20 G22 DR4 G2 DR22 G2 DR4 G20 DB20 LR4 DR22 G22 LR2 G20 DR8 DB2 LR20 DB2 DR34 LR/4
One full sett is 1386 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
Sample pattern
ID: /variants/s54/dr17db1lr10db1dr4g10lr1g11dr11lr2db10g10dr2g1dr11g1dr2g11dr10g1dr42g1dr2g1dr2g1dr42g1dr2g1dr2g1dr2g1dr10g11dr2g1dr11g1dr2g10db10lr2dr11g11lr1g10dr4db1lr10db1dr17lr2~x2/