MacQueen of Dalmagarry (Clan?)

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 GRKRGRBW.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 8 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=8892

Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
Scottish Tartans Authority
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
data date
1982 (this record)
licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

Gi/6 R8 K2 R52 G28 R8 DP32 W/4

One full sett is 270 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
G#289C18 #289C18oklch(60.6% 0.191 141.6)
G#5C6428 #5C6428oklch(48.3% 0.084 116.0)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)

Sample pattern

Gi/6 R8 K2 R52 G28 R8 DP32 W/4 tartan

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.

Dalmagarry (Corporate)Virginia Military Institute, New MarketShaw Red of Tordarroch Dress (Clan 2Shaw of Tordarroch Clan TartanShaw of Tordarroch Red (Dress)Snelgrove (Name)Virginia Military Institute, New MarketMason, David Elsworth (Personal)Kings Mountain 1780Unidentified Travelling costumegroundcomplexity

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