MacPherson of Cluny (Black and White)
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 WKWKWRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2724
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1948 Also known as MacPherson Dress often woven with purple in place of red
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1850 — MacPherson of Cluny (Black and White) (register-of-tartans, record)
Said to be the threadcount registered with the Lord Lyon but this does not appear in the Lord Lyon's books. This is the same as ITI #1872 but with the yellow line between the two whites, replaced with white. Cluny MacPherson had this to say about it to the Smith brothers in 1850: 'The light one enclosed by you was known as Breacan Glas (the Pied Wagtail) long before John Stuart (one of the Sobieski brothers) was heard of in this country, although I rather think the addition of the yellow stripe was introduced by him, or rather taken from his MS; but at all events the Tartan is an old MacPherson.' - pre 1850 — MacPherson of Cluny (B & W) (tartans-authority, record)
Said to be the count registered with the Lord Lyon but this does not appear in the Lord Lyon's books. This is the same as ITI 1872 but with the yellow line between the two whites, replaced with white. Cluny MacPherson had this to say about it to the Smith brothers in 1850: "The light one enclosed by you was known as Breacan Glas (the Pied Wagtail) long before John Stuart (one of the Sobieski brothers) was heard of in this country, although I rather think the addition of the yellow stripe was introduced by him, or rather taken from his MS; but at all events the Tartan is an old MacPherson." - 1948 — MacPherson of Cluny Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — MacPherson, of Cluny (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
- 1850 (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: 2724
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1830
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1830
Thread count
W/10 R6 W70 K56 W8 K22 W/4
One full sett is 338 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/w5r3w35k28w4k11w2~x2/