McCuaig (Glenelg and the Western Isles)
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 KGKBKGKRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10265
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 20/03/2010 — McCuaig (Glenelg and the Western Isles) (register-of-tartans, record)
McCuaig is a Sept of the Clan MacLeod, specifically MacLeod of Harris. This tartan is for those families that emgrated through Glenelg, Scotland, to Canada in the late 1700s and early 1800s. The tartan is based on Macleod of Harris. It includes an additional black check to denote "Son of Old Blackie" - one of the interpretations of the name McCuaig (MacCuaig). Created using the online tartan design software at www.scotweb.co.uk. - 20th March 2010 — McCuaig (2010) (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
McCuaig is a Sept of the Clan MacLeod, specifically MacLeod of Harris. This tartan is for those families that emgrated through Glenelg, Scotland, to Canada in the late 1700s and early 1800s. The tartan is based on Macleod of Harris. It includes an additional black check to denote "Son of Old Blackie" - one of the interpretations of the name McCuaig (MacCuaig). For use by all those with the surname McCuaig, MacCuaig or MacLeod.
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
- 20/03/2010 (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: 10265
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10265
Thread count
K/20 Y6 K4 T40 K20 G30 K4 R6 W/6
One full sett is 246 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| 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) |
| 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/s9/k10y3k2t20k10g15k2r3w3~x2/