MacTavish of Dunardry Dress
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 WKWGYWW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10731
Provenance
Earliest known date: 6 November 2012 A 'new' MacTavish Clan tartan, re-creating the Dunardry tartan known to Isobel, daughter of MacLachlan of that Ilk, paternal grandmother to Sheriff Dugald MacTavish of Dunardry. Evidence for the existence of this design can be found in a letter from Sheriff Dugald MacTavish at Kilchrist to John MacTavish, 18 February 1845, the original of which is held in the National Archives of Canada (Library and Archives Canada, James Hargrave and family fonds MG19-A21, Series 2 Mactavish family papers, volume 25/2, “D.M. to John McTavish. Regarding Scottish costume for son John, who will become the lineal representative of the Thane of Knapdale”, February 18th 1845, Kilchrist). The letter describes a tartan that ‘should have as much white as there was yellow in the MacLachlans tartan’. The registration of this Clan tartan has been approved by the current Clan Chief. Registrant details: Steven MacTavish of Dunardry, 27th Chief Clan MacTavish P.O. Box 93093, Burlington, Ontario, Canada, L7M 4A3
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 18/02/1845 — MacTavish of Dunardry Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
A 'new' MacTavish Clan tartan, re-creating the Dunardry tartan known to Isobel, daughter of MacLachlan of that Ilk, paternal grandmother to Sheriff Dugald MacTavish of Dunardry. Evidence for the existence of this design can be found in a letter from Sheriff Dugald MacTavish at Kilchrist to John MacTavish, 18 February 1845, the original of which is held in the National Archives of Canada (Library and Archives Canada, James Hargrave and family fonds MG19-A21, Series 2 Mactavish family papers, volume 25/2, “D.M. to John McTavish. Regarding Scottish costume for son John, who will become the lineal representative of the Thane of Knapdale”, February 18th 1845, Kilchrist). The letter describes a tartan that ‘should have as much white as there was yellow in the MacLachlans tartan’. The registration of this Clan tartan has been approved by the current Clan Chief. - 18/02/1845 — MacTavish of Dunardry (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
10731 A 'new' MacTavish Clan tartan, re-creating the Dunardry tartan known to Isobel, daughter of MacLachlan of that Ilk, paternal grandmother to Sheriff Dugald MacTavish of Dunardry. Evidence for the existence of this design can be found in a letter from Sheriff Dugald MacTavish at Kilchrist to John MacTavish, 18 February 1845, the original of which is held in the National Archives of Canada. The letter describes a tartan that ?should have as much white as there was yellow in the MacLachlans tartan?. The registration of this Clan tartan has been approved by the current Clan Chief. - 6 November 2012 — MacTavish of Dunardry Dress Clan 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
- 18/02/1845 (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: 10731
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10731
Thread count
LB/16 W56 LY6 G6 LB16 K18 LB/8
One full sett is 228 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| 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.
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