McFadden (Personal)
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 BBBKGKGY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2881
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/09/1999 — McFadden (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Mr John McFadden of Aberdeen for use as a personal tartan. Mr McFadden retains the copyright and no-one can weave or use this tartan without his express permission. Woven by Lochcarron. Colours: Green for the hills of Scotland. Blue for the Atlantic ocean. Yellow for the beaches of the west coast and Western isles and purple - one line for the thistle and one for the heather. - March 2000 — McFadden (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Scotish Tartans Society notes suggest an earlier date of Sept. 1999. Designed by Mr John McFadden of Aberdeen for use as a personal tartan. Mr McFadden retains the copyright and no-one can weave or use this tartan without his express permission. Colours: Green for the hills of Scotland. Blue for the Atlantic ocean. Yellow for the beaches of the west coast and Western isles and purple - one line for the thistle and one for the heather. J McFadden can be contacted (Dec. 2014) atjmcfadden45@btinternet.com.
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
- 01/09/1999 (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: 2881
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2656
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2656
Thread count
DB/36 DP4 DB32 K26 G6 K4 G84 LO/6
One full sett is 354 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
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/s8/db18dp2db16k13g3k2g42lo3~x2/