MacCormick
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 GKBKGKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2324
Provenance
Earliest known date: August 2007 Designed by Keith McCormick of New Brunswick, Canada for the use of his family which is descended from Hebridean Scots who were a sept of MacLaine of Lochbuie. Can be worn by those of the same name or spelling variations.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/08/2007 — MacCormick (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Keith McCormick of New Brunswick, Canada for the use of his family which is descended from Hebridean Scots who were a 'sept' of MacLaine of Lochbuie. - August 2007 — MacCormick (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Keith McCormick of New Brunswick, Canada for the use of his family which is descended from Hebridean Scots who were a 'sept' of MacLaine of Lochbuie. Can be worn by those of the same name or spelling variations. - August 2007 — MacCormick 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
- 01/08/2007 (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: 2324
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7161
Thread count
Y/6 K2 DB40 K32 G40 K2 W/6
One full sett is 244 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/y3k1db20k16g20k1w3~x2/