MacCorquodale
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 BKBKBKR.
Part of the MacCorquodale 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=2326
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1981 — MacCorquodale (register-of-tartans, record)
Sample donated to the Scottish Tartans Society by Kinloch Anderson in 1981. - 1981 — MacCorquodale (Clan?) (tartans-authority, record)
Sample in the Tartans Society collection given to them in 1981 by Kinloch Anderson of Edinburgh. Reference also states that this is in or from the Dalgliesh Collection. Not known which is correct sett, this version or 3335. See also 2079 which is the Argyll District version and which has the black guards on the red. Sample in STA Dalgety Collection.
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: 2326
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 283
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 283
Thread count
R/14 K8 T56 K48 Ti48 K8 T/8
One full sett is 358 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | oklch(61.7% 0.067 235.0) |
| T | #2888C4 #2888C4 | oklch(60.1% 0.125 241.5) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/r7k4t28k24ti24k4t4x2t2405244-ti2503227/