MacCaskill (Personal)
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 KGBKGRK.
Part of the MacCaskill 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=2310
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1951 — MacCaskill (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Miss Margaret MacDougal of the Inverness Museum wrote on 7th September 1951: 'Herewith pattern of the MacAskill which Messrs Pringle made at the request of an old man of this name. As you can see it is a variant of the MacLeod wherein the colours of stripes and their guards are reversed'. Designed for a farmer - Kenneth MacAskill, Milton of Leys. - 1951 — MacCaskill (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Miss M.MacDougal of the Inverness Museum wrote (7th September 1951) :- ''Herewith pattern of the MacAskill which Messrs Pringle made at the request of an old man of this name. As you can see it is a variant of the MacLeod...?" . . . wherein the colors of stripes and their guards are reversed. Designed for a farmer - Kenneth MacAskill, Milton of Leys. Affleck slides. Count from 'Tartans (Johnston/Smith 1999). Sample in STA Dalgety Collection. Very humorous history - see in STA archives. August 2011. Woven sample received from the House of Tartan in Menora, Western Australia - would appear to weaver's swatches.
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: 2310
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1152
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1152
Thread count
K/4 R2 DG30 K30 DB30 Y2 K/4
One full sett is 196 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/k2r1dg15k15db15y1k2~x2/