MacCrimmon from Skye
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 GKWKWKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2328
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1981 — MacCrimmon from Skye (register-of-tartans, record)
Interesting Scottish Tartans Society notes on this one: 'Taken from a knee rug with a label on it saying, 'Angus Macleod of Dunvegan Skye'. This weaver has not been traceable but is identified by the proposer, Dr Hugh Ross MacCrimmon as being the designer. The tartan has been woven now by D.C. Dalgliesh from Selkirk to this display's thread count.' An Angus MacLeod from Lewis was the designer of the Isle of Skye tartan. - pre 2002 — MacCrimmon from Skye (Clan?) (tartans-authority, record)
Interesting STS notes on this one: "Taken from a knee rug with a label on it saying, 'Angus Macleod of Dunvegan Skye'. This weaver has not been traceable but is identified by the proposer, Dr Hugh Ross MacCrimmon as being the designer. The tartan has been woven now by D.C.Dalgliesh from Selkirk to this display's thread count." An Angus MacLeod from Lewis was the designer of the Isle of Skye tartan. Knee rug in archives. - undated — MacCrimmon from Skye (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
- 1981 (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: 2328
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2610
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2610
Thread count
R/10 K6 LB44 K34 LB44 K6 Y/10
One full sett is 288 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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/r5k3lb22k17lb22k3y5~x2/