MacTavish #2
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 WBBWKW.
Part of the MacTavish tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4840
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1906 — MacTavish #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
This is MacTavish as it appeared in W & A K Johnston's 1906 publication 'Tartans of the Clans & Septs of Scotland'. In October 2003 however, Lord Lyon was requested to record this as the official MacTavish tartan and not #229 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) which was previously regarded as the official tartan. The only difference in #229 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) is that the line between the azure and red is black instead of blue. This was confirmed by the Chief to the Scottish Tartans Authority at Stone Mountain Games, October 2003. - 1906 — MacTavish (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
This is MacTavish as it appeared in W & A K Johnston's 1906 publication "Tartans of the Clans & Septs of Scotland". In October 2003 however, Lord Lyon was requested to record this as the official MacTavish tartan and not #229 which was previously regarded as the official tartan! The only difference in 229 is that the line between the azure and red is black instead of blue.This was confirmed by the Chief to Brian Wilton at Stone Mountain Games, October 2003.
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
- 1906 (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: 4840
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3598
Thread count
LB/8 DR48 DB8 LB24 K24 LB/8
One full sett is 224 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.62 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/s6/lb1dr6db1lb3k3lb1~x8/