MacKintosh, Red
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 BRGRGR.
Part of the MacKintosh 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=2576
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1951 This is the count for Red MacKintosh as decided by Lord Lyon and sent to Vice Admiral The Mackintosh of Mackintosh on 20th March 1951. It differs from No.521 (MacKintosh Clan) in that here the narrow bands outwith the broad green bands are also green: in No.521 they are blue. Lyon and Mr Kinloch Anderson had readjusted the setts of this and the Hunting tartan to correct discrepancies which they believed to have crept in over the years. It is generally regarded that the Chief of the Clan is the final arbiter of the sett of the Clan tartan, rather than the Lord Lyon.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1951 — MacKintosh, Red (register-of-tartans, record)
This is the count for Red MacKintosh as decided by Lord Lyon and sent to Vice Admiral The Mackintosh of Mackintosh on 20th March 1951. It differs from Scottish Tartans Register #2559 (MacKintosh Clan) in that here the narrow bands outwith the broad green bands are also green: in #2559 they are blue. Lyon and Mr Kinloch Anderson had readjusted the setts of this and the Hunting tartan to correct discrepancies which appeared to have crept in over the years. - 1951 — MacKintosh, Red Clan/Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, 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
- 1951 (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: 2576
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5889
Thread count
R/96 G20 R12 G36 R12 DB/4
One full sett is 260 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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 1.69 — 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/r24g5r3g9r3db1~x4/