MacBean of Tomatin (Clan)
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 BBBBGBB.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3342
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 2002 — MacBean of Tomatin (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
This is MacKintosh with a blue line centered on red ground. originally thought to be a black line (see #3343) A subsequently discovered specimen revealed it was actually blue and this is as woven in Peter E. MacDonald swatch, 1944. James Scarlett in his text says "the blue was probably purple". Same as MacFadyen (#403). 'Tartans' (Johnston/Smith 1999) calls this 'MacBean of Tomatin'. 2014. Sinclair/Brown Scrapbook note: "with black line . . . worn by the MacBean Chief at the end of the 19th century." The MacFadzean/MacFadyan connection comes from MacGregor Hastie and it's reported but unsubstantiated, that this was worn at Battle of Culloden. - undated — MacBean of Tomatin (register-of-tartans, record)
This is MacKintosh with a blue line centred on red ground. Originally thought to be a black line (see #3343, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference). A subsequently discovered specimen revealed it was actually blue and this is as woven in Peter E. MacDonald swatch, 1944. In his text, Jamie Scarlett MBE says 'the blue was probably purple'. Same as MacFadyen (#403, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference). 'Tartans' (Johnston/Smith 1999) calls this 'MacBean of Tomatin'.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- pre 2002 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5023
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3342
Thread count
DB/6 DR38 DB26 DR10 G42 DR16 DB/6
One full sett is 276 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) |
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/s7/db3dr19db13dr5g21dr8db3~x2/