MacNeil of Colonsay
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 BGWGKBK.
Part of the MacNeil of Colonsay tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2687
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1819 — MacNeil of Colonsay (register-of-tartans, record)
Threadcount recorded by Ian MacNeil of Barra, Chief of the McNeils, in the Lyon Court Books (writs section), 122, 12 October 2001. MacNeil tartans appear in pattern books produced by William Wilson & Sons of Bannockburn since the early nineteenth century, with various changes being made to the sett. Notes relating to the portrait of Murdoch MacNeil painted by Macleay in 1868 refer to 'the newly designed MacNeill of Colonsay tartan.' - undated — MacNeil of Colonsay (weddslist, record)
- undated — MacNiel of Colonsay (weddslist, record)
- undated — MacNiel of Colonsay (weddslist, 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
- 1819 (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: 2687
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 196
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 196
Thread count
DB/8 G12 W2 G12 K12 DB12 K/4
One full sett is 112 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) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/db4g6w1g6k6db6k2~x2/